Hospital-related incidents; causes and its impact on disaster preparedness and prehospital organisations Khorram-Manesh A et al. - Besides emergency department overcrowdings, ambulance diversions, endangering patient's safety and increasing risk for in-hospital mortality, hospital-related incidents reduces and limits the regional preparedness by minimizing the surge capacity. In order to prevent a future irreversible disaster, this problem should be avoided and addressed properly by further regional studies. [more...]
