Thomas D. Kirsch
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- PhD Biomedical Engineering Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Dean Kirsch is an American physician, scientist, and writer whose career has focused on disaster preparedness and response. He has been described as “…an expert in disaster research, planning and response, and disaster and wilderness medicine… both nationally and internationally”.
Thomas D. Kirsch's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Human Impact of Floods: a Historical Review of Events 1980-2009 and Systematic Literature Review (2013) (368)
- Use of advanced radiology during visits to US emergency departments for injury-related conditions, 1998-2007. (2010) (311)
- The Human Impact of Tsunamis: a Historical Review of Events 1900-2009 and Systematic Literature Review (2013) (279)
- The Human Impact of Earthquakes: a Historical Review of Events 1980-2009 and Systematic Literature Review (2013) (204)
- The Human Impact of Tropical Cyclones: a Historical Review of Events 1980-2009 and Systematic Literature Review (2013) (133)
- An analysis of emergency department use by patients with minor illness. (1991) (129)
- Seventy-two-hour returns may not be a good indicator of safety in the emergency department: a national study. (2011) (122)
- The effects of ambulance diversion: a comprehensive review. (2006) (113)
- Burden of disease and health status among Hurricane Katrina-displaced persons in shelters: a population-based cluster sample. (2008) (108)
- Resilience of the Canterbury Hospital System to the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake (2014) (106)
- Impact of the 2010 Pakistan Floods on Rural and Urban Populations at Six Months (2012) (94)
- An Electronic Emergency Triage System to Improve Patient Distribution by Critical Outcomes. (2016) (93)
- Perspectives of Future Physicians on Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness: Challenges of Building a Capable and Sustainable Auxiliary Medical Workforce (2009) (85)
- Patients who leave without being seen: their characteristics and history of emergency department use. (2006) (77)
- Uncompleted emergency department care: patients who leave against medical advice. (2007) (77)
- The 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes: context and cause of injury (2014) (72)
- Impact on Hospital Functions Following the 2010 Chilean Earthquake (2010) (58)
- Analysis of the International and US Response to the Haiti Earthquake: Recommendations for Change (2012) (57)
- The development of international emergency medicine: a role for U.S. emergency physicians and organizations. SAEM International Interest Group. (1997) (55)
- The Utility of and Risks Associated With the Use of Spontaneous Volunteers in Disaster Response: A Survey (2014) (54)
- Computed tomography scan utilization in emergency departments: a multi-state analysis. (2011) (53)
- Emergency medicine around the world. (1998) (48)
- Hurricane Katrina. Public health response--assessing needs. (2005) (48)
- Stop the Bleed Education Consortium: Education program content and delivery recommendations (2018) (47)
- A Functional Loss Assessment of a Hospital System in the Bío-Bío Province (2012) (47)
- Mortality following the Haitian earthquake of 2010: a stratified cluster survey (2013) (43)
- Planning recommendations for international emergency medicine and out-of-hospital care system development. (2000) (37)
- Pediatric injuries presenting to an emergency department in a developing country (1996) (36)
- Epidemiology and practice of emergency medicine in a developing country. (1995) (34)
- Critical Resources for Hospital Surge Capacity: An Expert Consensus Panel (2013) (32)
- A Comparative Analysis of Two External Health Care Disaster Responses Following Hurricane Katrina (2006) (30)
- Faith-Based Organizations and Sustainable Sheltering Operations in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina: Implications for Informal Network Utilization (2008) (29)
- Guidelines for evaluation of international emergency medicine assistance and development projects. (1997) (28)
- The COVID-19 pandemic challenge to the All-Hazards Approach for disaster planning (2021) (27)
- Proposed fellowship training program in international emergency medicine. (1999) (27)
- Impact of interventions and the incidence of ebola virus disease in Liberia-implications for future epidemics. (2016) (27)
- New York City police officers incidence of transcutaneous exposures. (1996) (25)
- Impact of interventions and the incidence of ebola virus disease in Liberia—implications for future epidemics (2017) (24)
- Strategies for Improved Hospital Response to Mass Casualty Incidents (2018) (23)
- The injury burden of the 2010 Haiti earthquake: a stratified cluster survey. (2013) (23)
- Disaster preparedness and humanitarian response in flood and landslide-affected communities in Eastern Uganda (2013) (23)
- Post-Mortem Evaluation of Potentially Survivable Hemorrhagic Death in a Civilian Population. (2018) (22)
- Metrics in the science of surge. (2006) (20)
- Multidisciplinary Difficult Airway Course: An Essential Educational Component of a Hospital-Wide Difficult Airway Response Program. (2018) (19)
- Petroleum pipeline explosions in sub-Saharan Africa: a comprehensive systematic review of the academic and lay literature. (2015) (17)
- Effect of rotational patient assignment on emergency department length of stay. (1996) (17)
- Changes needed in the care for sheltered persons: a multistate analysis from Hurricane Katrina. (2009) (16)
- Feasibility of an emergency department-based tuberculosis counseling and screening program. (1999) (16)
- Disease surveillance in the ED: factors leading to the underreporting of gonorrhea. (1998) (15)
- The Impact of the 22nd February 2011 Earthquake on Christchurch Hospital (2012) (15)
- Top hazards approach – Rethinking the appropriateness of the All-Hazards approach in disaster risk management (2020) (14)
- The impact of the earthquake and humanitarian assistance on household economies and livelihoods of earthquake-affected populations in Haiti. (2012) (14)
- Characterizing Hospital Admissions to a Tertiary Care Hospital After Typhoon Haiyan (2016) (14)
- Pandemic influenza and major disease outbreak preparedness in US emergency departments: a selected survey of emergency health professionals. (2011) (13)
- Public Health Preparedness of Post-Katrina and Rita Shelter Health Staff (2009) (13)
- Disaster Response 2.0: Noncommunicable Disease Essential Needs Still Unmet (2018) (13)
- A resource-constrained, multi-unit hospital model for operational strategies evaluation under routine and surge demand scenarios (2019) (13)
- Facilitating Hospital Emergency Preparedness: Introduction of a Model Memorandum of Understanding (2011) (12)
- Pandemic influenza and major disease outbreak preparedness in US emergency departments: a survey of medical directors and department chairs. (2009) (12)
- Mississippi's Infectious Disease Hotline: A Surveillance and Education Model for Future Disasters (2009) (12)
- Prevalence of Unmet Health Care Needs and Description of Health Care–seeking Behavior Among Displaced People After the 2007 California Wildfires (2009) (11)
- Measuring Patient Safety in the Emergency Department (2014) (11)
- Disaster Metrics: A Proposed Quantitative Assessment Tool in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies - The Public Health Impact Severity Scale (PHISS) (2012) (10)
- A survey of emergency department communicable disease reporting practices. (1991) (10)
- Readying for a Post-COVID-19 World: The Case for Concurrent Pandemic Disaster Response and Recovery Efforts in Public Health. (2020) (10)
- A piece of my mind. The line. (2010) (9)
- Tackling causes and costs of ED presentation for American football injuries: a population-level study. (2016) (9)
- Managed care organization authorization denials: lack of patient knowledge and timely alternative ambulatory care. (2000) (9)
- Splenic infarction at high altitude secondary to sickle cell trait. (2013) (9)
- Satisfaction with the humanitarian response to the 2010 Pakistan floods: a call for increased accountability to beneficiaries (2012) (9)
- Models for Assessing Strategies for Improving Hospital Capacity for Handling Patients during a Pandemic (2022) (9)
- Household Economic and Food Security after the 2010 Pakistan Floods (2013) (9)
- Measuring impact: a cross-sectional multi-stage cluster survey to assess the attainment of durable solutions in post-tsunami Aceh, Indonesia (2014) (8)
- Requirements for Independent Community-Based Quality Assessment and Accountability Practices in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Activities (2012) (8)
- Situation awareness in emergency medicine (2012) (7)
- Independent Review of the U.S. Government Response to the Haiti Earthquake, Final Report (2011) (7)
- Reexamining Health-Care Coalitions in Light of COVID-19 (2020) (7)
- Health Care Coalitions as Response Organizations: Houston After Hurricane Harvey (2017) (6)
- “Just-in-Time” Personal Preparedness: Downloads and Usage Patterns of the American Red Cross Hurricane Application During Hurricane Sandy (2016) (6)
- A Comparison of the Medium-term Impact and Recovery of the Pakistan Floods and the Haiti Earthquake: Objective and Subjective Measures (2014) (6)
- Disaster Medicine: What's the Reality? (2008) (5)
- The Need for a National Strategy to Assess and Reduce Disaster-Related Mortality in the United States. (2019) (5)
- US Governmental Spending for Disaster-Related Research, 2011–2016: Characterizing the State of Science Funding Across 5 Professional Disciplines (2019) (4)
- Disaster Preparedness and Response as Primary Health Care (1995) (4)
- A Discrete-Event Simulation model of hospital patient flow following major earthquakes (2022) (4)
- An all-hazards approach for quantifying loss of function for critical healthcare infrastructure (2013) (4)
- Impact of Emergency Department Triage and PreBed Provider Evaluation on Walk-out Rate, Ambulance Diversion and Patient Satisfaction (2007) (4)
- External emergency medical disaster response: does a need exist? (1996) (3)
- An Analysis of After Action Reports From Texas Hurricanes in 2005 and 2017 (2020) (3)
- Critical resources for hospital surge capacity: an expert consensus panel. (2013) (3)
- Electronic mass casualty assessment and planning scenarios (2010) (3)
- Recommended Process Outcome Measures for Stop the Bleed Education Programs (2020) (3)
- Sheltering patterns and utilization following the 2007 southern California wildfires. (2009) (2)
- California Wildfire Response (2008) (2)
- Just-in-Time Instructions for Layperson Tourniquet Application. (2019) (2)
- Maximizing Utility of a Deployable Medical Team from an Academic Medical Center to a Disaster (2011) (2)
- Health Care Workers Deserve Better Protections From Coronavirus Disease 2019. (2020) (2)
- Translating Professional Obligations to Care for Patients With Ebola Virus Disease Into Practice in Nonepidemic Settings (2015) (2)
- Pandemic influenza and major disease outbreak preparedness in US emergency departments: A survey of medical directors and department chairs. (2009) (2)
- Emergent Field Medicine (2001) (2)
- Learning from Hurricane Maria’s Impacts on Puerto Rico: A Progress Report (2021) (1)
- Climate Resilience: It Is Time for a National Approach (2021) (1)
- Characterizing the Current State of Training Courses Available to US Disaster Professionals (2019) (1)
- Who’s Who in Humanitarian Emergencies (2018) (1)
- Health Care Access and Utilization after the 2010 Pakistan Floods (2016) (1)
- Ball Memorial Hospital: Section 2 Sherman Act Analysis in The Alternative Health Care Delivery Market (1988) (1)
- Innovations for Tomorrow: Summary of the 2016 Disaster Health Education Symposium (2017) (1)
- Maximizing Hospital Capacity to Serve Pandemic Patient Surge in Hot Spots via Queueing Theory and Microsimulation (2022) (1)
- Pandemic influenza and major disease outbreak preparedness in US emergency departments: A selected survey of emergency health professionals. (2011) (1)
- Orthopedic Knowledge and Need in the Provincial Philippines: Pilot Study of a Population-Based Survey (2018) (0)
- Opportunities to Strengthen the National Disaster Medical System: The Military-Civilian NDMS Interoperability Study. (2022) (0)
- Advanced Radiology in US Emergency Departments—Reply (2011) (0)
- Know how to prepare your emergency department for pandemic influenza (2012) (0)
- Quantifying the Resilience of Healthcare Systems in Earthquakes: a Practical Approach (2014) (0)
- Assessing Quality through Measurement of Unmet Needs of Disaster Populations after the 2007 Southern California Wildfires (2009) (0)
- CONCEPTS IN DISASTERMEDICINE Strategies for Improved Hospital Response to Mass Casualty Incidents (2018) (0)
- Heroism Is Not a Plan—From “Duty to Treat” to “Risk and Rewards” (2022) (0)
- The National Disaster Medical System and military combat readiness: A scoping review (2022) (0)
- Regional Maximum Hospital Capacity Estimation for COVID-19 Pandemic Patient Care in Surge Through Simulation (2022) (0)
- 355: Emergency Department Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza in the U.S.: A Survey of Medical Directors and Department Chairs (2008) (0)
- 423: Pandemic Influenza and Major Disease Outbreak Preparedness In U.S. Emergency Departments: An Assessment of Disaster Medicine Experts (2010) (0)
- 391: The Impact of Emergency Department Size on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in U.S. Emergency Departments (2009) (0)
- Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that impact disaster health research. (2020) (0)
- Regions Respond to Catastrophes (2017) (0)
- 197EMF Orthopedic Knowledge and Need in the Provincial Philippines: A Population-Based Survey in Romblon Province (2016) (0)
- Reproduction number of Ebola falls below critical threshold in Liberia (2014) (0)
- Mass Shootings in America: Consensus Recommendations for Healthcare Response. (2022) (0)
- INVESTIGATING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN NEPAL: A HEALTHCARE FOCUS (2016) (0)
- RESEARCH Impact on Hospital Functions Following the 2010 (2010) (0)
- Tuberculosis screening of residents and staff in long-term care facilities. (1998) (0)
- Paul S. Auerbach, MD, MS, FACEP, FAAEM, MFAWM (Hon.)January 4, 1951-June 23, 2021. (2021) (0)
- A Comparison of US Federal Government Spending for Research and Development Related to Public Health Preparedness Capabilities, 2008–2017 (2019) (0)
- 332 The Reliability of Sick Children Require Evaluation Now to Prioritize Critically Ill Children in Primary Health Care Centers in Low-Resource Settings (2014) (0)
- Field assessment of general health and nutrition. (2002) (0)
- Characteristics and Short-Term Recidivism Rates of Patients Who Leave the Emergency Department Against Medical Advice (2007) (0)
- Utilization of the TRAIN Learning Network for Online Disaster Medicine and Public Health Training During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) (0)
- A flatter curve affords hospitals greater time to prepare for a pandemic surge (2022) (0)
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