Disaster metrics: Quantification of acute medical disasters in trauma-related multiple casualty events through modeling of the acute medical severity index

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 130-135

  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

disaster management; disaster metrics; disaster modeling; disaster quantification; medical severity index; multiple casualty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MASS DISASTER; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SURGE CAPACITY;

DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGE CAPACITY; TRIAGE;

EID: 84862585936     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X12000428     Document Type: Article

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