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Casualties Distribution in Human and Natural Hazards

2014
Catastrophic events, such as wars and terrorist attacks, big tornadoes and hurricanes, huge earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and landslides, are always accompanied by a large number of casualties. The size distribution of these casualties have separately been shown to follow approximate power law (PL) distributions.
Pinto, Carla M.A., Lopes, A.Mendes, Machado, J.A.Tenreiro   +2 more
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A systematic literature review of criteria and models for casualty distribution in trauma related mass casualty incidents

Injury, 2018
Mass casualty incidents impose a large burden on the emergency medical systems, hospitals and community infrastructures. The pre-hospital and hospital capacities are usually bear the burden of casualties large numbers. One of the challenging issues in mass casualty incidents is the distribution of casualties among the suitable health care facilities.To
Mohammad Reza, Khajehaminian, Ali, Ardalan, Abbasali, Keshtkar, Sayed Mohsen, Hosseini Boroujeni, Amir, Nejati, Omid Mahdi Ebadati, Ebadati E, Abbas, Rahimi Foroushani   +6 more
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Patient Distribution Tool for Mass Casualty Incidents in a Large Metropolitan Setting

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2023
Introduction:During a mass casualty incident (MCI), activating resources for response and equitable patient distribution is paramount. The Regional Hospital Coordination Center (RHCC) of a large US city lacked an objective tool readily available to manage patient distribution to area hospitals during an MCI.
Booth, Kathryn, Daniels, Mackenzie
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Distribution of Drug-Related Problems Among London Casualty Departments

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1978
A survey of patients with drug-related problems seen in London casualty departments during the course of one month revealed 1,706 separate incidents. In 477 cases the patients were dependent on drugs, and more than 40 per cent were dealt with by only five hospitals, all in the West End of London.
A H, Ghodse, N S, Rawson
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Mass casualty incident management, triage, injury distribution of casualties and rate of arrival of casualties at the hospitals: lessons from a suicide bomber attack in downtown Tel Aviv

Emergency Medicine Journal, 2008
Terrorist attacks in Israel cause mass events with varying numbers of casualties. A study was undertaken to analyse the medical response to an event which occurred on 17 April 2006 near the central bus station, Tel Aviv, Israel. Lessons are drawn concerning the management of the event, primary triage, evacuation priorities and the rate and ...
Y, Raiter, A, Farfel, O, Lehavi, O B, Goren, A, Shamiss, Z, Priel, I, Koren, B, Davidson, D, Schwartz, A, Goldberg, Y, Bar-Dayan   +10 more
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Road Casualties and Enforcement: Distributional Assumptions of Serially Correlated Count Data

Traffic Injury Prevention, 2007
Road safety data are often in the form of counts and usually temporally correlated. The objective of this research is to investigate the distributional assumptions of road safety data in the presence of temporal correlation.Using the generalized linear model framework, four distributional assumptions are considered: normal, Poisson, quasi-Poisson and ...
George, Yannis, Constantinos, Antoniou, Eleonora, Papadimitriou   +2 more
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The insurance distribution systems and efficiency in the property‐casualty insurance industry

Managerial Finance, 2009
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate coexistence of multiple distribution systems in property‐casualty (P/C) insurance industry in the USA.Design/methodology/approachStochastic frontier analysis is used to measure cost and revenue efficiencies of P/C insurance companies utilizing different distribution systems.FindingsIndependent agent ...
Jin Park, Sukho Lee, Han Bin Kang
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Zero-Inflated Exponential Distribution of Casualty Rate in Ship Collision

Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University (Science), 2019
There are two weaknesses in current researches into human casualty of ship collision. One is that the range of injuries or fatalities is restricted to the maximum number of casualties in a particular sample, which may not cover all the possible numbers of casualties in the future.
Daozheng Huang, Hao Hu, Yizhou Li
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Surgical Casualty Care in Contested Distributed Maritime Operations: Lessons Learned From the Falklands War

Military Medicine, 2023
ABSTRACT The Falklands Campaign was fought a significant distance from the home base of the British Fleet. The planning and delivery of medical care during this campaign can provide significant lessons for strategic medical planning in other far spread geographic locations, including the Indo-Pacific region.
Scott Hughey, Jacob Cole, Adam Brust, Kyle Checchi, Joshua Kotler, Andrew Lin   +5 more
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PRIORITIZATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF CASUALTIES IN DISASTER RESPONSE MANAGEMENT

2019
This dissertation focused on two different problems that typically arise in the aftermath of disasters. In the first part of the dissertation, we study the problem of how casualties should be prioritized and distributed to different medical facilities in the aftermath of mass casualty incidents (MCIs) with the objective of maximizing the expected total
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