Disaster metrics: A proposed quantitative model for benchmarking prehospital medical response in trauma-related multiple casualty events

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 123-129

  Bayram, Jamil D ^a   Zuabi, Shawki ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

benchmark; disaster metrics; disaster response; emergency medical services; multiple casualty; prehospital response

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS DISASTER; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; TIME;

BENCHMARKING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRIAGE;

EID: 84862520197     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X12000416     Document Type: Article

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