Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 3 , Pages 223-229 , September 2008

Relationship Between Standards of Procedures for Pandemic Flu and Level of Hospital Performance in Simulated Drills

  • Bruria Adini, MA

      Affiliations

    • Emergency and Disaster Management Division, Ministry of Health, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
    • ,
  • Avishay Goldberg, MA, MPH, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
    • Department of Health Systems Management, Leon and Mathilda Recanati School for Community Health Professions, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
    • ,
  • Robert Cohen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Medical Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    • , Col.
  • Yaron Bar-Dayan, MD, MHA

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
    • IDF Home Front Command, Ramle, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Col. Yaron Bar-Dayan, MD, MHA, IDF Home Front Command, the Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, and the Department of Healthcare Systems Management, the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, 16 Dolev Street, Neve Station, Or-Yehuda, Beer-Sheva, Israel; 009 72578 186215, fax 009 72363 41039

Received 21 May 2007 ,Revised 13 March 2008 ,Accepted 21 March 2008.

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 Supervising editor: Jonathan L. Burstein, MDAuthor contributions: BA participated in determining the aim of the study, conducted most of the research, and processed the data. BA and YB-D reviewed the literature. BA and RC wrote the article. BA, AG, and RC participated in planning the research and in article revisions. AG participated in literature review. RC conducted the statistical analysis. YB-D led the research group, decided the aim of the study, and led the planning of the research. YB-D takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article that might create any potential conflict of interest. The authors have stated that no such relationships exist. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. The article is part of Bruria Adini studying for PhD in the Faculty for Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.Publication dates: Available online May 12, 2008.

PII: S0196-0644(08)00614-8

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.03.022

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 3 , Pages 223-229 , September 2008

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