Operational Communications: Adapting a Hospital Daily Check-In (DCI) for Expanded Use During Emergency Events.

Low-frequency, high-acuity emergency events can and do occur within health care settings. Having a strong sense of daily situational and operational awareness is the first step in responding to any emergency event. To maintain high reliability, hospital leaders and staff must understand the full impact to the organization as the emergency event evolves.

Hospital incident command: First responders or receiving centers?

Objectives: (1) Propose a conceptual model of an alternative hospital incident management system (HIMS) that integrates concepts used by emergency operations centers (EOCs). (2) Compare HIMS to the standard hospital incident command system (HICS) model.

Design: A quasi-experimental study was performed.