ABSTRACT
Healthcare service provided in hospitals can be compromised due to many different internal or external causes. There is no unified approach or indicator system to identify hospital weakness and evaluate hospital resilience during and after disasters up to now. This chapter presents a state-of-the-art review of hospital resilience. Different definitions and quantification methods of hospital resilience were summarized first, followed by comparisons of potential resilience indicators of hospitals in literature. Different frameworks and methods for evaluating hospital resilience are presented at the single hospital level and healthcare network level. The system modeling methods of hospital systems including discrete event simulation, agent-based simulation, system dynamics modeling, and fault tree method are then compared. Finally, the outline of this book was discussed.
