Hospital Emergency Incident Command System (HICS)
Background Literature
Hospitals are the most important base for health care in a community especially when it comes to a disaster, the function of a hospital has to be in a high quality and also the communication, transportation, and prevent distribution between hospitals have to be good as well.
The Incident Command System (ICS) was created in 1970 in response to a series of wildfires in Southern California in the United States. The goal of ICS was to create a simple communication and establish lines to authority and command, also to provide more effective on-site management and the use of resources.
Hospital Emergency Incident Command System (HEICS), most common name as Hospital Incident Command System (HICS), is a method by which the hospital …show more content…
They used 28 standardized scenarios from 2006 HICS and each scenario was run for a maximum of 2 hours.
All positions of the HICS were assessed according to the 5 main sections (command, operations, planning, logistics, and finance/administration) using the job action sheets, by a groupof 3 evaluators, mainly medical doctors who has been work for at least 6 years..
The performance for each HICS position was scored based on the compatibility of the participants' decisions with the relevant job action sheet. A compatibility below 40% was scored as 1, a compatibility between 40 and 70% as 2, and if the compatibility was above 70%, the score was 3. The score was 0 if the position was missed or no performance was achieved for the specific task………. The range for the total HICS score was 1-192 (see additional file 1), and was divided into at three categories: Fair: 1-76; Intermediate: 77-134; High: 135-192.
Descriptive statistics was performed. A t-test was used to compare means of HICS performance between hospitals with respect to their affiliation, size and training courses. A Univariate Analysis of Variance was used to evaluate the effect of independent variables on HICS performance.
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Hospitals are the most important base for health care in a community especially when it comes to a disaster, the function of a hospital has to be in a high quality and also the communication, transportation, and prevent distribution between hospitals have to be good as well.
The Incident Command System (ICS) was created in 1970 in response to a series of wildfires in Southern California in the United States. The goal of ICS was to create a simple communication and establish lines to authority and command, also to provide more effective on-site management and the use of resources.
Hospital Emergency Incident Command System (HEICS), most common name as Hospital Incident Command System (HICS), is a method by which the hospital …show more content…
They used 28 standardized scenarios from 2006 HICS and each scenario was run for a maximum of 2 hours.
All positions of the HICS were assessed according to the 5 main sections (command, operations, planning, logistics, and finance/administration) using the job action sheets, by a groupof 3 evaluators, mainly medical doctors who has been work for at least 6 years..
The performance for each HICS position was scored based on the compatibility of the participants' decisions with the relevant job action sheet. A compatibility below 40% was scored as 1, a compatibility between 40 and 70% as 2, and if the compatibility was above 70%, the score was 3. The score was 0 if the position was missed or no performance was achieved for the specific task………. The range for the total HICS score was 1-192 (see additional file 1), and was divided into at three categories: Fair: 1-76; Intermediate: 77-134; High: 135-192.
Descriptive statistics was performed. A t-test was used to compare means of HICS performance between hospitals with respect to their affiliation, size and training courses. A Univariate Analysis of Variance was used to evaluate the effect of independent variables on HICS performance.
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