SIMEDIS: a Discrete-Event Simulation Model for Testing Responses to Mass Casualty Incidents.

ABSTRACT: 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 response principles, concepts, structures and processes in a disaster setting. Much of what is known about the DMR results from descriptive studies and expert opinion. No experimental studies regarding the effects of DMR interventions on the health outcomes of disaster survivors have been carried out. Traditional analytic methods cannot fully capture the flow of disaster victims through a complex disaster medical response system (DMRS). Computer modelling and simulation enable to study and test operational assumptions in a virtual but controlled experimental environment. The SIMEDIS (Simulation for the assessm

SUBMITTER: Debacker M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5069323 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature