Hospital capacity planning for disaster emergency management

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 151-160

  Yi, Pengfei ^a   George, Santhosh K ^a   Paul, Jomon Aliyas ^a   Lin, Li ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity planning; Disaster planning; Hospitals; Meta model; Regression; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL SECTOR; META-ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952892013     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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