Most organizations face difficult challenges in managing knowledge for crisis response, but it is crucial for response effectiveness that such challenges be overcome. Organizational members must share the knowledge needed to plan for emergencies. They also must be able during an emergency to access relevant plans and communicate about their responses to it. This article examines the role and re...

background: identification of the effective factors in reducing response time in prehospital emergency medical service (ems) can assist in improving its services. this study aimed at reviewing the effect of applying global positioning system (gps) on response time of tehran ems ambulances. materials and methods: of 132 tehran ems stations, 24 ones were randomly selected, and relevant data, incl...

Community rapid response and rehabilitation teams are used to prevent avoidable hospital admissions for adults living with multiple long-term conditions and to support early hospital discharge by providing short-term intensive multidisciplinary support. Supporting self-management is an important service intervention if desired outcomes are to be achieved. A Care Quality Commission inspection of...

Introduction: This report describes the response, action plan, and after-action changes adopted by Louisiana State University New Orleans (LSU-NO)–Emergency Medicine (EM) Residency Program in response to Hurricane Ida, which occurred Orleans, late August through early September 2021. Summarized are redistribution of emergency department (ED) residents within primary clinical site, Medical Cente...