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

Amir Khorram-Manesh; Johan Berlin; Eric Carlström

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

Bull Emerg Trauma. 2016 Oct;4(4):186-196.

Authors

Amir Khorram-Manesh¹, Johan Berlin², Eric Carlström³

Affiliations

¹ Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Center, Gothenburg, Sweden ; Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.
² Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, University West, Trolhättan, Sweden.
³ Department of Health and crisis management and policy, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.

PMID: 27878123
PMCID: PMC5118570

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: Collaboration; Command and control; Communication; Crisis management; Decision-making; Disasters; Emergencies; Exercises; Multi-disciplinary; Real-time; Simulation; Training; Validated.

Publication types

Review