Resource planning for ambulance services in mass casualty incidents: A DES-based policy model

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 254-269

  Rauner, Marion S ^a   Schaffhauser Linzatti, Michaela M ^a   Niessner, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Disaster planning for ambulance services; Discrete event simulation; Management games

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864562557     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-012-9198-7     Document Type: Article

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