Challenges of providing of special care services in hospitals during emergencies and disasters: a scoping review

Challenges of providing of special care services in hospitals during emergencies and disasters: a scoping review

The ability of hospitals to provide special care services for critically ill or injured patients during emergencies and disasters poses very significant challenges that necessitate the response in-place plans. the increasing frequency of such events, coupled with limited hospital resources and increasing patient volumes, underscores the urgency of addressing these issues. Specifically, this study aims to identify the challenges faced by hospitals in providing special services during disasters.

This review identified 15 distinct challenges associated with providing special care services in hospitals during emergencies and disasters: limited resources, inadequate infrastructure, lack of pre-hospital care, financial constraints, failures in the emergency response system, triage, deficiencies in management structure, planning, and preparation, communication and coordination deficits, training and protocols development, employee welfare challenges, challenges of continuity of care, increased demand, different and complex needs of patients, ethical challenges, imbalance in distribution of service resources.

Mohammad Masbi, Nader Tavakoli & Mohsen Dowlati

https://bmcemergmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12873-024-01160-1

BMC Emergency Medicine

18 december 2024

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