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Challenges of Hospital Disaster Risk Management: A Systematic Review Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2021

Somayeh Azarmi ,
Amir Hosein Pishgooie ,
Simintaj Sharififar ,
Hamid Reza Khankeh  and
Seyyed Ziya Hejrypour
Somayeh Azarmi
Affiliation:
Department of Critical Care Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Amir Hosein Pishgooie*
Affiliation:
Department of Critical Care Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Simintaj Sharififar
Affiliation:
Department of Critical Care Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Hamid Reza Khankeh
Affiliation:
Health in Emergencies and Disasters Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Seyyed Ziya Hejrypour
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Beasat Hospital, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
*
Corresponding author: Amir Hosein Pishgooie, Email: apishgooie@yahoo.com
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Abstract

Objective:

This study aimed to investigate the challenges of hospital disaster risk management so that it can take a step to provide strategies and interventions to remove these barriers and improve the hospital disaster risk management (HDRM) through identifying and introducing them to disaster experts.

Methods:

This is a systematic qualitative review study. Data sources included Persian and international databases, which were searched using the keywords of hospital, disaster, risk management, risk reduction, disaster and challenge, and the combination of them. The search period ranged from January 2010 to January 2020. Data were extracted by 2 independent examiners for qualitative thematic analysis.

Results:

A total of 762 articles and documents were recovered. Finally, 12 articles entered the study, including 7 studies from Asia, 2 articles from Europe, 2 articles from the United States, and 1 article about Africa. After thematic analysis, 17 sub-themes were achieved and were classified into 4 subjects of technical-physical barriers, organizational-managerial barriers, financial barriers, and human barriers. All articles have not discussed on all categories.

Conclusions:

The results of evaluating the challenges of hospital disaster risk management gained from this study can be beneficial in developing a roadmap to improve the status of HDRM.

Keywords

disastershospitalrisk managementrisk reduction
Type
Systematic Review
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 16 , Issue 5 , October 2022 , pp. 2141 - 2148
Copyright
© Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2021

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