Background Adequate and effective emergency preparedness for hospital surge capacity is
a prerequisite to ensuring standard healthcare services for disaster victims. This study aimed …

Decisions about medical resource triage during disasters require a planned structured
approach, with foundational elements of goals, ethical principles, concepts of operations for …

Quarantine has been used for centuries in an effort to prevent the introduction, transmission,
and spread of communicable diseases. While backed by legal authority, the public and even …

Health care facility surge capacity has received significant planning attention recently, but
there is no commonly accepted framework for detailed, phased surge capacity …

Purpose Health systems are periodically confronted by crises–think of Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome, H1N1, and Ebola–during which they are called upon to manage …

Objectives This study aims to develop a theoretical framework for the flexible surge capacity,
inspired by existing surge capacity, complexity theory, and collaborative theoretical …

Disasters create a secondary surge in casualties because of the sudden increased need for
long-term health care. Surging demands for medical care after a disaster place excess strain …

Background: Managing mass casualty or disaster incidents is challenging to any person or
organisation. Therefore, this paper identifies and describes common challenges to …

Abstract Objectives Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has consumed many available
resources within contingency plans, necessitating new capacity surges and novel …

The increasing number of external threats from environmental and human-caused hazards
requires that emergency health care systems, including healthcare facilities, support …