**7. Conclusions**

The pilot study revealed that a properly designed questionnaire can be used to assess the relationship between hospital and sta ff preparedness and disaster response e fficiency.

The knowledge and skills of health professionals in relation to specific events and their impact on people, as well as the appropriate treatment, are essential for the quality of healthcare services during disasters.

In order to achieve the level of preparedness and the e ffectiveness of the disaster response, it is necessary that every hospital has pre-prepared and validated procedures.

An experimental study involving a range of hospitals should be carried out, using more comprehensive assessment tools, to assess the correlation between the level of preparedness and performance of the hospital and the impact of the preparation of the hospital and its sta ff towards the survival of disaster victims.

Evaluation of the preparedness and e ffectiveness of disaster response is a means of identifying and removing possible gaps and weaknesses in the functioning and e ffective managemen<sup>t</sup> of a hospital during mass-casualty incidents.

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization: K.G.; data collection: K.G. and M.G.; formal Analysis: K.G. and M.G.; writing—original draft preparation: K.G. and M.G. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
