Disseminating emergency preparedness planning Models as automatically generated custom spreadsheets

Interfaces

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 263-270

  Herrmann, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care: Treatment; Planning: Government; Queues: Approximations

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349198914     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1070.0335     Document Type: Article

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