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http://dx.doi.org/10.7232/JKIIE.2014.40.2.151

Scenario-Based Optimization of Patient Distribution and Medical Resource Allocation in Disaster Response  

Jin, Sukho (Department of Information and Industrial Engineering, Yonsei University)
Kim, Jangyeop (Department of Information and Industrial Engineering, Yonsei University)
Kim, Kyungsup (Department of Information and Industrial Engineering, Yonsei University)
Jeong, Sukjae (School of Business, Kwangwoon University)
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Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers / v.40, no.2, 2014 , pp. 151-162 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study proposes an optimization model to plan the patient distribution and medical resource allocation considering the diverse characteristics of disaster. For reflecting the particularity of disaster response, we configured a few scenarios such as availability of emergency surgery of non-major medical staff and the change in number of patients estimated reflecting the uncertainty, urgency and convergence of disaster. And we finally tested the effects of the scenarios' combination on the objective function defined as maximum number of survival patients. Our experimental results are expected to highlight the significance of the proposed model as well as the applicability of scenarios under disaster response.
Keywords
Patient Distribution; Disaster Logistics; Survival Probability; Patient's Severity; Disaster Uncertainty;
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