Design and psychometrics of risk assessment tool for makeshift hospitals: Focusing on pandemics

Pandemics caused a change in the health service delivery system. In disasters with massive in- juries or epidemic, the capacity to admit the injured and infected patients to provide health services faces the challenges

. Covid-19 virus is a respiratory disease that from its emergence until January 18, 2023, the Covid-19 virus has infected more than 672 million people worldwide. In most countries, makeshift hospital has been set up as intermediate medical centers to keep people who are likely to be carriers of the disease to control communicable diseases. Most makeshift hospitals already have alternative uses and, have changed into temporary or intermediate care centers.

Based on the search of research team, any standard tools were found to assess the makeshift hospitals safety. All the safety assessment tools were related to the hospital, but since makeshift hospitals are mostly non-hospital structures, the research team has designed and validate a makeshift hospital safety assessment tool for the first time in this study

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https://www.cell.com/heliyon/pdf/S2405-8440(23)02180-1.pdf