@article{ETD,
      school = {D.N.P.},
      author = {Reddy, Patricia M.},
      url = {http://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/8066},
      title = {Implementation of a disaster triage assessment instrument  to facilitate  evacuation of hospitalized perinatal  patients:  a quality improvement project},
      publisher = {Oregon Health and Science University},
      abstract = {Disaster preparedness involves the anticipation of an  event and integration of appropriate protocols that will  likely mitigate the impact of a disaster. An evacuation  triage tool for perinatal inpatients, a vulnerable  population, that has been designed and integrated into an  urban multi hospital teaching consortium, has not been  evaluated for validity and reliability outside of this  context. Multiple studies have focused on triaging  inpatients for admission to care, only the OBTRAIN  highlights triaging for evacuation in the perinatal  inpatient setting. Inter-rater agreement of the OB-TRAIN  instrument was assessed during a quality improvement  project at a rural community hospital's  labor-delivery-recovery-postpartum 7-bed unit with an  overall 73% accordance over an 84-day evaluation. Three  cycles implementing the plan-do-study-act framework of  quality improvement measured the internal consistency by  Cronbach's alpha with a result of 0.73.  Forecasting of  future transport needs could be assessed relying on data  from the 84-day project: 16% no hospital census, 32% car  discharge, 37% low acuity, 7% moderate acuity, 6% high  acuity, and <1% shelter in place. During a disaster, having  access to a tool to assess resource needs rapidly, and with  reliability between raters, is essential for patient safety  when decision making in a crisis management situation.},
      number = {ETD},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6083/nk322f04j},
      recid = {8066},
      address = {2020},
}