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A challenge for healthcare system resilience after an earthquake: The crowdedness of a first-aid hospital by non-urgent patients

After a violent earthquake, the supply of medical services may fall short of the rising demand, leading to overcrowding in hospitals, and, consequently, a collapse in the healthcare system. This paper takes the emergency care system in Taiwan as the research context, where first-aid hospitals are ra...

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Autores principales: Lin, You-Xuan, Lin, Chi-Hao, Lin, Chih-Hao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8018621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33798238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249522