Healthcare Decision-Making in a Crisis: A Qualitative Systemic Review Protocol
Background. Throughout history, communities have faced outbreaks of infectious diseases and other natural and man-made disasters that pose significant threats to lives, public health, and business continuity. Many of these disasters are crises that require critical decisions to be made in a short, c...
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| author | Ehmaidy Al Qaf’an Stewart Alford Kimberley Porteous David Lim |
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| description | Background. Throughout history, communities have faced outbreaks of infectious diseases and other natural and man-made disasters that pose significant threats to lives, public health, and business continuity. Many of these disasters are crises that require critical decisions to be made in a short, crucial time with limited information and unforeseen circumstances amidst panic, fear, and shock. The COVID-19 pandemic is a recent example, with public leaders responding to and formulating strategies to attenuate the relentless waves of transmission and surges in resource demands. The pandemic underscored the importance of understanding how healthcare leaders make decisions in-crisis and what factors healthcare leaders prioritize in their decision-making process. Methods/Design. PubMed(NLM), Embase(Ovid), Scopus(Elsevier), Business Source(EBSCOhost), and ProQuest will be searched for primary qualitative studies published in English to explore the multi-faceted decision-making processes of healthcare leaders during a public health crisis. A meta-ethnographic approach will synthesize insights into healthcare leaders’ experiences and perspectives and generate a conceptual theory of decision-making in crisis. Discussion. Understanding how healthcare leaders make critical decisions during public health crises takes advantage of the lessons learned to inform how future health crises are managed. (This systematic review is registered in PROSPERO: CRD42023475382). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-12fe83862f554edb9364140aafb551332024-04-20T00:00:00ZengHindawi LimitedEmergency Medicine International2090-28592024-01-01202410.1155/2024/2038608Healthcare Decision-Making in a Crisis: A Qualitative Systemic Review ProtocolEhmaidy Al Qaf’an0Stewart Alford1Kimberley Porteous2David Lim3Centre for Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation (IMPACCT)Kaplan Business SchoolEducation and Research Services (Health)Centre for Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation (IMPACCT)Background. Throughout history, communities have faced outbreaks of infectious diseases and other natural and man-made disasters that pose significant threats to lives, public health, and business continuity. Many of these disasters are crises that require critical decisions to be made in a short, crucial time with limited information and unforeseen circumstances amidst panic, fear, and shock. The COVID-19 pandemic is a recent example, with public leaders responding to and formulating strategies to attenuate the relentless waves of transmission and surges in resource demands. The pandemic underscored the importance of understanding how healthcare leaders make decisions in-crisis and what factors healthcare leaders prioritize in their decision-making process. Methods/Design. PubMed(NLM), Embase(Ovid), Scopus(Elsevier), Business Source(EBSCOhost), and ProQuest will be searched for primary qualitative studies published in English to explore the multi-faceted decision-making processes of healthcare leaders during a public health crisis. A meta-ethnographic approach will synthesize insights into healthcare leaders’ experiences and perspectives and generate a conceptual theory of decision-making in crisis. Discussion. Understanding how healthcare leaders make critical decisions during public health crises takes advantage of the lessons learned to inform how future health crises are managed. (This systematic review is registered in PROSPERO: CRD42023475382).http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2024/2038608 |
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| title | Healthcare Decision-Making in a Crisis: A Qualitative Systemic Review Protocol |
| title_full | Healthcare Decision-Making in a Crisis: A Qualitative Systemic Review Protocol |
| title_fullStr | Healthcare Decision-Making in a Crisis: A Qualitative Systemic Review Protocol |
| title_full_unstemmed | Healthcare Decision-Making in a Crisis: A Qualitative Systemic Review Protocol |
| title_short | Healthcare Decision-Making in a Crisis: A Qualitative Systemic Review Protocol |
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