Improving rural emergency medical services (EMS) through transportation system enhancements.

Details

• Creators:
  Samra, Haifa ; Qin, Xiao ; He, Zhaoxiang
• Corporate Creators:
  South Dakota State University
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Rural areas
  • Emergency medical services
  • Needs assessment
  • Emergency response time
  • Trip length
  • Traffic safety
• Publication/ Report Number:
  MPC 14-267
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  South Dakota
• Corporate Publisher:
  Mountain Plains Consortium
• Abstract:
  Improved emergency medical services (EMS) will impact traffic safety and public health in rural ; communities. Better planned, designed, and operated roadway networks that connect hospitals with ; communities in need will enhance EMS performance. To provide safe, timely and quality services, it is ; necessary to obtain a realistic estimate of the medical demand and the capacity of current transportation ; infrastructure pertaining to the services. The gaps between service providers, patients, and transportation ; network connecting the two need to be identified and filled to support better EMS. The goal of this ; project was to identify issues with respect to the delivery of quality EMS to rural residents in South ; Dakota (SD) and to conduct a needs assessment from the rural transportation system perspective. Study ; objectives were: ; 1. Identify the service needs from the rural communities ; 2. Evaluate the rural transportation system components in support of swift and safe EMS ; 3. Identify the existing issues with the SD EMS providers or first responders related to roads ; and traffic controls ; Study objectives were achieved through a combination of literature review, spatial and temporal analysis ; of SD EMS data, and EMS personnel surveys and focus groups. In addition to survey results, this report ; summarizes the SD EMS data from the geographic (e.g., counties in SD) and temporal (e.g., time of day, ; day of week, and month of year) perspectives and concentrates on several time- and distance-dependent ; variables such as response time, en-route time, on-scene time, and transporting time as well as the ; distance to and from the incident scene.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27325/dot_27325_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.77 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2e83fed83a620fa7889ac15825dc022966b54c4d4614370b66267487e0d80bf6