Two Validated Ways of Improving the Ability of Decision-Making in Emergencies; Results from a Literature Review

[摘要] The aim of the current review wasto study the existing knowledge about decision-making and to identify and describe validated training tools.A comprehensive literature review was conducted by using the following keywords: decision-making, emergencies, disasters, crisis management, training, exercises, simulation, validated, real-time, command and control, communication, collaboration, and multi-disciplinary in combination or as an isolated word. Two validated training systems developed in Sweden, 3 level collaboration (3LC) and MacSim, were identified and studied in light of the literature review in order to identify how decision-making can be trained. The training models fulfilled six of the eight identified characteristics of training for decision-making.Based on the results, these training models contained methods suitable to train for decision-making.

[学科分类] 基础医学

[关键词] Decision-making;Emergencies;Disasters;Crisis management;Training;Exercises;Simulation;Validated;Real-time;Command and control;Communication;Collaboration;Multi-disciplinary