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Modeling and Simulation of Disaster Medicine Processes for Resilience Assessment of Hospital BCPs

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Advances in Simulation and Digital Human Modeling (AHFE 2021)

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Business continuity planning and management (BCP/BCM) is crucial for enterprises such as hospitals and healthcare agencies. However, there is no established method to evaluate the effectiveness and resilience of BCP. In this study, we develop a model for the in-hospital medical processes and resource usage required in mass casualty events. The process model is based on records from two hospitals that accepted several people injured in the Formosa Fun Coast Dust Explosion that occurred in Taiwan in 2015. We conducted a simulation to replicate the situation in the two hospitals for model verification and validation and confirmed that the simulation results were consistent with the actual data to some extent. The model developed in this study can be used to observe and compare the details of the disaster medicine processes under different settings and scenarios; thus, the model may be utilized for BCP evaluations.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the JST-Mirai Program (Grant Number JPMJMI20B5), Japan.

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  1. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Kadono Shunsuke & Kanno Taro

  2. Graduate Institute of Data Science, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Chen Chia-Hsin & Chuang Sheuwen

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  1. Kadono Shunsuke
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Correspondence to Kadono Shunsuke .

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  1. U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Orlando, FL, USA

    Julia L. Wright

  2. Soar Tech, Orlando, FL, USA

    Daniel Barber

  3. Department of Product Development, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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  4. Biomedical Research and Environmental, NASA Lyndon Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Sudhakar L. Rajulu

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Shunsuke, K., Taro, K., Chia-Hsin, C., Sheuwen, C. (2021). Modeling and Simulation of Disaster Medicine Processes for Resilience Assessment of Hospital BCPs. In: Wright, J.L., Barber, D., Scataglini, S., Rajulu, S.L. (eds) Advances in Simulation and Digital Human Modeling. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 264. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79763-8_13

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