Abstract
Hospitals are an integral part of a society's critical functions designed to respond to man-made and natural disasters. Effective hospital capacity planning can significantly enhance the capability and effectiveness of treatment for emergency patients with injuries resulting from a disaster. Such information can be used for patient/ambulance routing, resource planning, and emergency operations management. In the current paper, we develop a generic simulation model that is capable of representing the operations of a wide range of hospitals given an earthquake disaster situation. Using results from our simulations, generalized regression equations are fitted to obtain steady-state hospital capacities. A parametric metamodel is then developed to predict transient capacity for multiple hospitals in the disaster area in a timely manner, as demanded by emergency operations management for guiding the routing and treatment of injured people.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 151-160 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Socio-Economic Planning Sciences |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2010 |
Keywords
- Capacity planning
- Disaster planning
- Hospitals
- Meta-model
- Regression
- Simulation
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