Healthcare resilience improvement using collaborative care in response to disasters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22025820 |
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| Authors | Danuphon Tippong (0000-0002-6146-1316, Prince of Songkla University), Sanja Petrovic (0000-0002-1424-5696, University of Nottingham, corresponding author), Vahid Akbari (0000-0002-0152-7176, University of Nottingham) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 130 |
| Pages | 105828 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2212-4209 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105828 |
| OpenAlex | W4414298276 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 43 |
This paper describes discrete event simulation models developed to investigate three different strategies which provide emergency medical response operations with different collaborations involved to improve resilience of the healthcare network in disaster management. Three strategies include the historical non-collaborative care, the current semi-collaborative care, and a new collaborative care that we propose to address the limitations of the first two strategies. These strategies differ in the level of information sharing during initial treatments, and decisions on resource allocation and patient transportation. A general resilience metric was adapted to fit the healthcare context and used to evaluate the collaborative care strategies in various disaster scenarios (mild, moderate, and severe). In our experimental setting, the new collaborative care strategy consistently enhanced resilience, facilitating a quicker return to the pre-disaster state compared to the other two approaches. In contrast, the semi-collaborative care strategy demonstrated worse resilience in nearly all scenarios, although it outperformed the non-collaborative care when dealing with a small number of patients. The study offers managerial insights into collaborative characteristics within the healthcare network and their influence on the network resilience during disasters. The insights can be valuable to emergency planners in formulating more effective strategies for collaborative care and support the decision making on resource sharing in response to disasters
Collaborative Care · Collaborative network · Emergency management · Health care · Resource allocation · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Facility Location and Emergency Management
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