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:
  Emergency Medical Services Emergency Response Time Needs Assessment Rural Areas Traffic Safety Trip Length
• 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.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2e83fed83a620fa7889ac15825dc022966b54c4d4614370b66267487e0d80bf6
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27325/dot_27325_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.77 MB ]