You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Prehospital care
Who’s who at a major incident: standardising role titles for emergency planners
  1. M Mudalige,
  2. S Carley,
  3. K Mackway-Jones
  1. Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 S Carley
 Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK; Simon.carley{at}cmmc.nhs.uk

Abstract

Objective: To standardise the names for key roles in a major incident.

Methods: A Delphi study using experts in major incident planning.

Results: There is clear consensus regarding the need for standard nomenclature. The expert group identified 28 roles, and 184 different names were initially given by group members for the 28 roles. Agreement on a common nomenclature was achieved in only 12/28 roles.

Conclusion: There is agreement for a standardised nomenclature for major incident roles. However, consensus may be difficult to achieve from within an expert group.

  • MIMMS
  • major incident

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2005.030098

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interest: KMJ and SC have written HMIMMS, which contains a standardised nomenclature set.