Bulletin of Emergency And Trauma

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

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

Amir Khorram-Manesh
Johan Berlin
Eric Carlström

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Center, Department of Surgery, Institution of clinical sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University

Abstract
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.

Keywords

Decision-making
Emergencies
Disasters
Crisis management
Training
Exercises
Simulation
Validated
Real-Time
Command and control
Communication
Collaboration
Multi-disciplinary
Bulletin of Emergency And Trauma
Volume 4, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
25
Autumn 2016
Pages 186-196

  • Receive Date 05 July 2016
  • Accept Date 09 March 2019

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