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Hospital Capacity Planning for Efficient Disaster Mitigation during an Earthquake
Socio Economic Planning Sciences, (2010)
  • Pengfei Yi
  • Santosh George
  • Jomon Aliyas Paul, Kennesaw State University
  • Li Lin, University at Buffalo
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.

Publication Date
2010
Citation Information
Pengfei Yi, Santosh George, Jomon Aliyas Paul and Li Lin. "Hospital Capacity Planning for Efficient Disaster Mitigation during an Earthquake" Socio Economic Planning Sciences, Vol. 44 Iss. 3 (2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jomonaliyas_paul/22/