Principles of scarce medical resource allocation in natural disaster relief: A simulation approach

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 470-476

  Cao, Hui ^a   Huang, Simin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

disaster management; earthquake; scarce resource allocation; simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TIME; TRIAGE;

EID: 84861796190     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X12437247     Document Type: Article

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