Operations research/management contributions to emergency department patient flow optimization: Review and research prospects Soroush Saghafian, Garrett Austin & Stephen J. Traub a Industrial Engineering, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA b Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, 85054, USA Publ...

This paper describes the innovative use information technology for assisting disaster planners with an easily-accessible method for writing and improving evidence-based emergency operations plans. This process is used to identify all key objectives of the emergency response according to capabilities of the institution, community or society. The approach then uses a standardized, objective-based...

BACKGROUND GlobalSurg-1 was a multicentre, international, prospective cohort study conducted to address the global lack of surgical outcomes data. Six South African (SA) hospitals participated in the landmark surgical outcomes study. In this subsequent study, we collated the data from these six local participants and hypothesised that the location of surgery was an independent risk factor for a...

This letter summarizes three talks in the tutorial session of the 13th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS2011), which focused on the disaster recovery and further emergency management regarding the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. We present the damage and restoration of communication networks and points to a future disaster-resilient society. key words: disast...

INTRODUCTION Introducing an intensive care unit (ICU)-based medical emergency team (MET) into our hospital was associated with decreased postoperative in-hospital mortality after major surgery. The purpose of the present study was to assess the effect of the MET and other variables on long-term mortality in this patient population. METHODS We conducted a prospective, controlled, before-and-af...

Hurricane Katrina was one of the most expensive and devastating natural disasters in American history. Over half a million people were affected by the hurricane, and the US energy infrastructure was severely damaged. In fact, parts of the Gulf are still recovering from Hurricane Katrina to this day. Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters clearly show the need for improvements in crisis m...

ion here being understood as that which escapes or abstracts from normative structural enclosure, as juxtaposed with the submissiveness or enclosure imposed by those in positions of authority who sought to impose mere learning, as opposed to the cultivation of creativity; the former being equated by Stirner to subservience, the latter to freedom of the ego. For Stirner, the intrinsic characteri...

This paper describes the work that is being done within the EU research project DISASTER to solve interoperability issues in cross-border emergency operations by applying a technical solution that is able to create a common operational picture. To that end a twofold solution is proposed: the development of a common and modular ontology shared by all the stakeholders taking into account differen...

System resilience implies practitioners’ capacity to cope with unexpected events, i.e. cognitive resilience. To address it, we outline a framework based on the Skill-Rule-Knowledge model grounding it in the operators’ sensitivity to the variety that normally occurs in complex systems activities. This variety can hide information enabling the organization to be proactive and to manage unexpected...