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Dimensions of Hospital Resilience Emphasized During the Covid-19 Pandemic Response: A Systematic Review Publisher



Atighechian G1 ; Rahimi A2 ; Sattari M2 ; Mohammadi M3
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  1. 1. Health Management and Economics Research Centre, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
  2. 2. Health Information Technology Research Centre, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
  3. 3. Centre for Environment and Population Health, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Source: Health Science Reports Published:2024


Abstract

Objectives: Hospitals must maintain their effective operations during and after disasters. Due to the current increase in disasters, hospital resilience has drawn scholarly attention. This study aimed to review studies on the changes in the definition of hospital resilience after COVID-19, build a conceptual framework for careful measurement, and identify the main dimensions of hospital resilience emphasized during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design: The initial phase of this study was a systematic review of articles published before the COVID-19 pandemic to extract the hospital resilience-related dimensions for the second phase. The second phase involved text-mining articles published both before and after the emergence of COVID-19. Setting: In the systematic review phase, 12 databases were searched from 2006 to January 2020, including Scopus, Web of Science, MEDLINE through PubMed, Embase, ERIC, ProQuest, the Cochrane Library, Emerald, Springer, Science Direct/ELSEVIER, Google Scholar, and SID (for Persian language papers). Then, after COVID-19, articles published in these databases between January 2020 and May 2022 were evaluated using text mining. Result: During the systematic phase, 17 out of 1530 papers published before COVID-19 were synthesized to collect components of hospital disaster resilience. These identified components were the inputs for the text-mining phase. The text mining on pre-COVID papers resulted in six clusters, with the highest weight (0.65) belonging to general resilience and disaster preparedness, while in the post-COVID text mining phase, including 70 papers, 8 clusters have been identified, with the highest weight cluster (0.78) focusing on the mental and psychological aspects of resilience among healthcare workers. Conclusion: Following the COVID pandemic, scholarly attention has shifted to the more personal dimensions of hospital resilience, including psychological resiliency. It seems necessary for policymakers to focus more on the individual and psychological resilience of hospital staff. © 2024 The Author(s). Health Science Reports published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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