Systematic review of strategies to manage and allocate scarce resources during mass casualty events

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Timbie, Justin W ^a   Ringel, Jeanne S ^a   Fox, D Steven ^a   Pillemer, Francesca ^a   Waxman, Daniel A ^a   Moore, Melinda ^a   Hansen, Cynthia K ^b   Knebel, Ann R ^c   Ricciardi, Richard ^d   Kellermann, Arthur L ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH   (United States)

^d AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CHEMICAL ACCIDENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HURRICANE; MASS DISASTER; NATURAL DISASTER; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SMALLPOX; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 84878114368     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.02.005     Document Type: Review

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