BACKGROUND System-level planning involves uniting hospitals and health systems,
local/regional government agencies, emergency medical services, and other health-care …

Disasters and other emergency events have complex effects on human systems, particularly
if the events are severe or prolonged. When these types of events happen in rural …

It is recognized that the study of the disaster medical response (DMR) is a relatively new
field. To date, there is no evidence-based literature that clearly defines the best medical …

Abstract In 2005, the American Burn Association published burn disaster guidelines. This
work recognized that local and state assets are the most important resources in the initial 24 …

To handle mass casualty incidents (MCIs), emergency medical services in central European
countries such as Austria or Germany are used to build up small field hospitals called …

Due to an increasing number of mass casualty incidents, which are generally complex and
unique in nature, we suggest that decision makers consider operations research-based …

ObjectiveWe aimed to evaluate emergency medical services (EMS) data as disaster metrics
and to assess stress in surrounding hospitals and a municipal network after the closure of …

Background: The exposome (eg, totality of environmental exposures) and its role in
Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) are …

Due to their unpredictability and indiscriminate impact on either unprepared and seemingly
riskfree populations or military populations, disasters of even local magnitude tend to be …

Following a radiological terrorist attack or radiation accident, the general public may be
exposed to radiation. Historically, modeling efforts have focused on radiation effects on a …