Impact of lifting the mandatory evacuation order after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident on the emergency medical system: a retrospective observational study at Minamisoma City with machine learning analysis

Objectives This study aimed to identify factors that delayed emergency medical services (EMS) in evacuation order zones after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident and to investigate how the lifting of the evacuation affected these factors over time....

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Main Authors: Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Masaharu Tsubokura, Akihiko Ozaki, Toyoaki Sawano, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Hiroaki Saito, Naomi Ito, Tianchen Zhao, Chika Yamamoto, Hiroki Yoshimura, Saori Nonaka, Satoshi Tashiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2023-04-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/4/e067536.full