TY - JOUR
T1 - Scoping review of hospital business continuity plans to validate the improvement after the 2011 great east Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
AU - Sasaki, Hiroyuki
AU - Maruya, Hiroaki
AU - Abe, Yoshiko
AU - Fujita, Motoo
AU - Furukawa, Hajime
AU - Fuda, Mikiko
AU - Kamei, Takashi
AU - Yaegashi, Nobuo
AU - Tominaga, Teiji
AU - Egawa, Shinichi
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank administrative members, Makoto Abe, Chikara Sakurai, Ikunori Yamazaki, Toru Okada, and Kentaro Ujiie from the Division of Structure Design and Yasuo Yoshida and Ichiro Sasaki from the Division of Administration at the Tohoku University Hospital for their tireless cooperation in the development of TUH BCP. This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP19K10478. We would like to thank Editage (https://www.editage.com) for English language editing.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Tohoku University Medical Press.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - During a disaster, all hospitals are expected to function as “social critical institutions” that protect the lives and health of people. In recent disasters, numerous hospitals were damaged, and this hampered the recovery of the affected communities. Had these hospitals business continuity plans (BCPs) to recover quickly after the disaster, most of the damage could have been avoided. This study conducted a scoping review of the historical trend and regional differences in hospital BCPs to validate the improvement of the BCP concept based on our own experience at Tohoku University Hospital, which was affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (GEJET). We searched PubMed by using keywords related to BCP and adapted 97 articles for our analysis. The number of articles on hospital BCPs has increased in the 2000s, especially after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. While there are regional specificity of hazards, there were many common topics and visions for BCP implementation, education, and drills. From our 2011 GEJET experience, we found that BCPs assuming region-specific disasters are applicable in various types of disasters. Thus, we suggest the following integral and universal components for hospital BCPs: (1) alternative methods and resources, (2) priority of operation, and (3) resource management. Even if the type and extent of disasters vary, the development of BCPs and business continuity management strategies that utilize the abovementioned integral components can help a hospital survive disasters in the future.
AB - During a disaster, all hospitals are expected to function as “social critical institutions” that protect the lives and health of people. In recent disasters, numerous hospitals were damaged, and this hampered the recovery of the affected communities. Had these hospitals business continuity plans (BCPs) to recover quickly after the disaster, most of the damage could have been avoided. This study conducted a scoping review of the historical trend and regional differences in hospital BCPs to validate the improvement of the BCP concept based on our own experience at Tohoku University Hospital, which was affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (GEJET). We searched PubMed by using keywords related to BCP and adapted 97 articles for our analysis. The number of articles on hospital BCPs has increased in the 2000s, especially after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. While there are regional specificity of hazards, there were many common topics and visions for BCP implementation, education, and drills. From our 2011 GEJET experience, we found that BCPs assuming region-specific disasters are applicable in various types of disasters. Thus, we suggest the following integral and universal components for hospital BCPs: (1) alternative methods and resources, (2) priority of operation, and (3) resource management. Even if the type and extent of disasters vary, the development of BCPs and business continuity management strategies that utilize the abovementioned integral components can help a hospital survive disasters in the future.
KW - Alternative methods and resource
KW - Business continuity plan (BCP)
KW - Disaster medicine
KW - Priority of operation
KW - Scoping review
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U2 - 10.1620/tjem.251.147
DO - 10.1620/tjem.251.147
M3 - Article
C2 - 32641641
AN - SCOPUS:85087658695
VL - 251
SP - 147
EP - 159
JO - Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
JF - Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
SN - 0040-8727
IS - 3
ER -