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A National Disaster Medicine Quality Management Tool in an International Context – A Theoretical Study

  • Theresa Berthold EMAIL logo , Marcel Zill , Birgitt Alpers , Jan-Thorsten Gräsner and Jan Wnent
Published/Copyright: July 1, 2024

Abstract

The impact of disasters is changing, with disaster events becoming more complex and often affecting multiple countries simultaneously. Despite this, quality management systems have not yet been established in the field of disaster medicine. The German research project QUARZ-SAND, developed a national disaster medicine quality management system and an online registry. This theoretical study ascertains the current state of quality management in disaster medicine and compares existing initiatives to QUARZ-SAND and highlights advantages and synergies in the pooling of incident data, in view of improving resilience to national and transboundary disaster events. A systematic literature research was conducted on December 18, 2020 in the databases PubMed and LIVIVO. Existing disaster medicine quality management tools were identified and compared with QUARZ-SAND. It was determined that a lot of effort is still needed to get to an internationally accepted common standard and a tool such as a registry for evaluating medical disaster responses. A first step toward the establishment of a registry is the development of a standardized data set.


Corresponding author: Theresa Berthold, Institute for Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Arnold-Heller-Straße 3, Haus 808, 24105 Kiel, Germany, E-mail:

  1. Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they received a research grant for the project QUARZ-SAND from the German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance.

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Received: 2021-06-28
Accepted: 2024-03-17
Published Online: 2024-07-01

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