Disaster metrics: Quantitative benchmarking of hospital surge capacity in trauma-related multiple casualty events

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-124

  Bayram, Jamil D ^a   Zuabi, Shawki ^b   Subbarao, Italo ^c  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Memorial Medical Center   (United States)

^c AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster management; Disaster metrics; Disaster modeling; Hospital preparedness; Hospital surge capacity; Multiple casualty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL PLANNING; HUMAN; INJURY; MASS DISASTER; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; SURGE CAPACITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

BENCHMARKING; DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITAL PLANNING; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SURGE CAPACITY; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84862547991     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/dmp.2010.19     Document Type: Article

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