The impact of the three-level collaboration exercise on collaboration and leadership during scenario-based hospital evacuation exercises using flexible surge capacity concept: a mixed method cross-sectional study.

Background: Hospitals play a crucial role in responding to disasters and public health emergencies. However, they are also vulnerable to threats such as fire or flooding and can fail to respond or evacuate adequately due to unpreparedness and lack of evacuation measures. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has emphasised the importance of partnerships and capacity building in disaster response.

Improving Machine Learning 30-Day Mortality Prediction by Discounting Surprising Deaths.

Background: Machine learning (ML) is an emerging tool for predicting need of end-of-life discussion and palliative care, by using mortality as a proxy. But deaths, unforeseen by emergency physicians at time of the emergency department (ED) visit, might have a weaker association with the ED visit.

Objectives: To develop an ML algorithm that predicts unsurprising deaths within 30 days after ED discharge.

The Feasibility of Implementing the Flexible Surge Capacity Concept in Bangkok: Willing Participants and Educational Gaps.

The management of emergencies consists of a chain of actions with the support of staff, stuff, structure, and system, i.e., surge capacity.

Likelihood of admission to hospital from the emergency department is not universally associated with hospital bed occupancy at the time of admission.

Background: The decision to admit into the hospital from the emergency department (ED) is considered to be important and challenging. The aim was to assess whether previously published results suggesting an association between hospital bed occupancy and likelihood of hospital admission from the ED can be reproduced in a different study population.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study of attendances at two Swedish EDs in 2015 was performed.

Reasons for longer LOS at the emergency departments: Practical, patient-centred, medical, or cultural?

Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is caused by external and/or internal factors. One critical internal factor, leading to longer length of stay (LOS) at ED (eg, frequent ED users), is the physician's uncertainty in management of patients with unclear diagnosis and or complex medical history. The aim of this study was to identify whether the causes of physicians' uncertainty was practical, patient-centred, medical, or cultural.