Fig 1.
Patient flow of first-aid hospitals.
Table 1.
Distribution of patient categories.
Table 2.
Distribution of patients to paths by acuity levels.
Table 3.
Distribution of arriving patients to paths.
Fig 2.
Patient arrival rates within the four-day busy phase and on normal days (adapted from Favier et al. [16]).
Table 4.
Probability distribution of service time.
Table 5.
Resource number of each service.
Table 6.
Comparing average waiting time for treatment from simulation and real data [28].
Table 7.
Average waiting time for treatment by ALs and hospital levels in 2012 in Taiwan [28].
Fig 3.
Crowdedness Index in the normal situation.
Fig 4.
Crowdedness Index under the influence of earthquakes.
Fig 5.
The patient growth ratios and effects on CI.
Fig 6.
Emergency care quality drop and restoration.
Fig 7.
The Quality recovery curve and the daily patient volume.
Table 8.
Quality and the patient number in GR1 and GR2.