New publication in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Prof. Dr. Bryan T. Adey's Chair of Infrastructure Management is pleased to announce that the article “Stress testing hospitals using service measures and resilience indicators” by Dr. Rossella Marmo - former post-doctoral student at the IM group- has been published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
In this paper, Rosella Marmo presents a framework to assess overall hospital resilience using service measures and resilience indicators. It provides a clear structured high-level overview of the resilience of hospitals and facilitates decision-making as to which actions should be taken to improve resilience.
The framework uses five service measures and twenty indicators to estimate and quantify resilience. The values of the resilience indicators and the values of the service measures are explicitly connected, and the resilience assessment is done by comparing the values of service measures at the current operational condition against the values at the baseline condition, i.e., the reference condition at which the hospital is supposed to work. The framework is explained using a fictive example based on a tertiary hospital in Beirut, Lebanon.
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