title: Active life threatening violence--are you prepared?
abstract: The need to develop and exercise a viable plan to cope with a critical incident has become mandatory, according to the author, who in this article presents a prescription for such a plan that includes beginning with a policy, preparing by training, exercising your plan to discover strengths and weaknesses, and then applying the lessons learned to improve and establish a strategy for recovery.
authors.affiliation: HealthAlliance Hospitals, Leominster, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D004189:Disaster Planning; D006268:Health Facilities; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D016134:Organizational Policy; D012637:Security Measures; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*; D054041:Weapons