Using a discrete-event simulation to balance ambulance availability and demand in static deployment systems

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1359-1366

  Wu, Ching Han ^a   Hwang, Kevin P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ambulance availability; Discrete event simulation; Emergency medical services; Response time; Static ambulance deployment models

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PARAMEDICAL PROFESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SIMULATION;

AMBULANCES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); TAIWAN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 71549133088     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00583.x     Document Type: Article

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