Resource-based patient prioritization in mass-casualty incidents

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 361-377

  Mills, Alex F ^a   Argon, Nilay Tanik ^b   Ziya, Serhan ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency response; Health operations; Triage

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT CLASS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; OPTIMAL POLICIES; REALISTIC SIMULATION; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS; SURVIVAL PROBABILITIES; TRIAGE;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84881280626     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1120.0426     Document Type: Article

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