Background: The emergency medical services system has a vital role in the timely treatment of victims and the reduction of injury and mortality rates. Ambulance response time is an essential variable in evaluating the quality of its services. The aim of this study was to determine the ambulance response time and to compare it according to background variables. Methods: This descriptive study ...

Set-based design has been proposed as a strategy for multifunctional design problems where stakeholders from different disciplines strive to achieve domain-specific objectives while sharing a set of design variables. This strategy involves communicating information about sets of alternatives in contrast to communicating information about a single alternative at a time. The strategy has been dev...

While Veterinary Services are generally involved in disasters, they have greater presence and leadership in biological disasters. Hazard response plans are widely available at national level but their availability diminishes the closer the level descends to the productive base, which is where many of the protective measures must actually be implemented. Countries highlight issues relating to ea...

From the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC (D.A.J.); and the Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, VIC (D.A.J., R.B.) — both in Australia; and the Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh (...