Inclusion and exclusion criteria
| Inclusion | Exclusion |
|---|---|
| Original articles (empirical, modelling or conceptual studies) | Reviews |
| Large scale event (+100 victims) | Small scale events and accidents |
| Focus on rescuing civilian patients | Focus on rescuing military / soldiers |
| Sudden onset natural disasters (flood, tsunami, earthquake, storm, wildfire, volcanic eruptions, heat waves) | Slow-onset disasters (droughts, sea level rise, increasing temperatures) |
| Human-made disasters (terrorist attacks, bioterrorism, nuclear incidents, industrial incidents, chemical incidents) | Epidemics, pandemics, traffic accidents, events (festivals etc.) |
| Transport of patients from a disaster scene | Transport within or between hospitals |
| Focus on patient management / operations management / transport | Focus on medical treatment |
| English language | Other languages |
| Papers published in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings | Other articles |
| Inclusion | Exclusion |
|---|---|
| Reviews | |
| Small scale events and accidents | |
| Focus on rescuing military / soldiers | |
| Slow-onset disasters (droughts, sea level rise, increasing temperatures) | |
| Epidemics, pandemics, traffic accidents, events (festivals etc.) | |
| Transport within or between hospitals | |
| Focus on medical treatment | |
| Other languages | |
| Other articles |
Once the screening done, we had 127 articles to full text read. We defined the elements to extract from these articles in the Table 3. In addition, we looked in detail at all the OR papers to extract from them the focus (efficiency, effectiveness, fairness), the optimization criteria, the method, the solution, the problem and the scenario for simulation studies
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