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Surge Capacity

"Surge Capacity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A health care system's ability to rapidly mobilize to meet an increased demand, to rapidly expand beyond normal services levels to meet the increased demand in the event of large-scale DISASTERS or public health emergencies.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Surge Capacity" by people in this website by year, and whether "Surge Capacity" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 9 publications over 4 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2014
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