Search for: [Abstract = "in Poland, namely Warsaw, Krakow and Gdańsk\-Sopot\-Gdynia. The assessment was conducted in twelve multi\-profile public hospitals in the three urban agglomerations. A questionnaire was filled directly by 146 hospital employees, including hospital directors \(or medical directors\), heads of emergency units and admission room, heads of intensive care units, internal units and acute poisoning units, as well as by assistant doctors and nurses employed in these units. The questionnaire touched upon such issues as the participants’ knowledge of potential chemical incident sources within their respective urban areas\; relevant training provided to the participants\; existence of emergency response plans\; hospitals’ logistic preparedness \(decontamination units, individual protection, stockpiling of antidotes and other medicine\) as well as professionalpreparedness of the hospital employees. Annexed to the present work is the questionnaire employed for hospital preparedness assessment. For the purposes of this work, the assessment of preparedness was conducted for each hospital as a whole, and not for specific units, wards or staff groups. The statistic analysis of results was aimed at establishing the existence or non\-existence of a correlation between the hospital, the hospital’s location and the staff’s position \(function\), and selected parameters \(elements\) of preparedness. In assessi"]

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