Hospitals Should Anticipate Workforce Reductions in Disasters

摘要

Hospital emergency workers say they won't respond equally to all emergencies, according to research published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. While about 87 percent of emergency room workers said they'd come to work in the event of an airplane crash, only 54 percent said they would in a disaster involving biological agent. In the event of a radioactive bomb, 72 percent would come in.rnLori Masterson of Chicago's Resurrection Medical Center and colleagues surveyed 204 emergency room workers from eight Chicago hospitals who participated in the May 2003 TOPOFF 2 national disaster drill.