Optimal ambulance location with random delays and travel times

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 262-274

  Ingolfsson, Armann ^a   Budge, Susan ^a   Erkut, Erhan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b OZYEGIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ambulance location; Dispatch delays; Emergency medical services; Facility location

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

AMBULANCES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 49549118955     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-007-9048-1     Document Type: Article

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