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The objective of this study is to establish a comprehensive evaluation system for military hospitals’ response capacity to bio-terrorism. Literature research and Delphi method were utilized to establish the comprehensive evaluation system for military hospitals’ response capacity to bio-terrorism. Questionnaires were designed and used to survey the status quo of 134 military hospitals’ response capability to bio-terrorism. Survey indicated that factor analysis method was suitable to for analyzing the comprehensive evaluation system for military hospitals’ response capacity to bio-terrorism. The constructed evaluation system was consisted of five first-class and 16 second-class indexes. Among them, medical response factor was considered as the most important factor with weight coefficient of 0.660, followed in turn by the emergency management factor with weight coefficient of 0.109, emergency management consciousness factor with weight coefficient of 0.093, hardware support factor with weight coefficient of 0.078, and improvement factor with weight coefficient of 0.059. The constructed comprehensive assessment model and system are scientific and practical.
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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (90924019).
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Hui Wang and Nan Jiang have contributed equally to this study.
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Wang, H., Jiang, N., Shao, S. et al. A Comprehensive Evaluation System for Military Hospitals’ Response Capability to Bio-terrorism. Cell Biochem Biophys 72, 147–152 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12013-014-0426-2
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