Improving Rural Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Through Transportation System Enhancements Phase II

Details

• Creators:
  Qin, Xiao ; He, Zhaoxiang ; Samra, Haifa
• Corporate Creators:
  Mountain Plains Consortium
• Corporate Contributors:
  University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering ; University of South Dakota. Nursing, School of Health Sciences
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Emergency medical services
  • Performance measurement
  • Location
  • Emergency response time
  • Enroute traffic control
  • Regression analysis
  • Rural areas
  • Metrics (Quantitative assessment)
  • Emergencies
  • Disasters
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  MPC 15-301
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Mountain Plains Consortium
• Abstract:
  Providing acute medical care outside of the hospital, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is crucial in rural environments where hospitals are not close by and are difficult to access. Establishing EMS performance measures is critical in improving a rural community’s access to these services and eliminating systemic inequalities; however, an absence of quantitative performance analysis leads to challenges in developing attainable objectives and service metrics. Hence, the main objectives in this study are as follows: 1) to establish more specific, data-driven, and rural EMS performance-based measures 2) to increase the utilization of rural EMS resources through station planning and location optimization 3) to identify key variables contributing to response time, specifically, en route time.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31945/dot_31945_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.60 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a2c52de839b90a3a1ffbca08b4f2c28c72acc4e691d8f31cce42a3fa291ec585