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Connect dispatch centers for call handling improves performance
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2019 The aim of this Letter to the Editor was to report a strategy to reduce time waiting for emergency calls in a dispatch center, in line with a recently published article that reviewed evidence for medical dispatching systems to accurately dispatch ...
Yann Penverne +7 more
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Improving Ambulance Dispatching with Machine Learning and Simulation [PDF]
, 2021 As an industry where performance improvements can save lives, but resources are often scarce, emergency medical services (EMS) providers continuously look for ways to deploy available resources more efficiently.
Theeuwes, Nikki +2 more
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BMC Primary Care, 2022 Background Urinary tract infection (UTI) is particularly common in young women and the elderly. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in Copenhagen, Denmark can be reached by calling either of two dedicated telephone lines: 1–1-2 in case of an emergency ...
Jeske Verhoeven +5 more
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Trends and Characteristics of Emergency Medical Services in Italy: A 5-Years Population-Based Registry Analysis [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) plays a fundamental role in providing good quality healthcare services to citizens, as they are the first responders in distressing situations.
Borraccino, Alberto +6 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2023 Background Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) are a limited and expensive resource, and should be intelligently tasked. HEMS dispatch was identified as a key research priority in 2011, with a call to identify a ‘general set of criteria with the
Christopher T. Edmunds +6 more
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Helicopter emergency medical service dispatch in older trauma: time to reconsider the trigger?
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) respond to serious trauma and medical emergencies. Geographical disparity and the regionalisation of trauma systems can complicate accurate HEMS dispatch.
J. E. Griggs +7 more
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EMVLight: a Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for an Emergency Vehicle Decentralized Routing and Traffic Signal Control System [PDF]
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies Volume 146,
January 2023, 103955, 2022 Emergency vehicles (EMVs) play a crucial role in responding to time-critical calls such as medical emergencies and fire outbreaks in urban areas. Existing methods for EMV dispatch typically optimize routes based on historical traffic-flow data and design traffic signal pre-emption accordingly; however, we still lack a systematic methodology to address ...
arxiv +1 more source
BMJ Open, 2019 ObjectivesTo access the epidemiological characteristics of elderly people using emergency medical services (EMS) in Beijing, as a consequence of injurious falls, and the association between an ageing population and injurious falls.DesignA longitudinal ...
Yu Cao +6 more
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Stroke identification by criteria based dispatch - a register based study [PDF]
, 2017 Source at https://doi.org/10.1111/aas.13032. Background: Rapid and precise dispatch of resources is a key element in pre‐hospital emergency medicine. Emergency medical communication centres (EMCCs) dispatch resources based on protocols and guidelines ...
Ellensen, Eirin Nybø +4 more
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BMJ Open, 2019 ObjectivesEvaluating whether future studies to develop prediction models for early readmissions based on health insurance claims data available at the time of a hospitalisation are worthwhile.DesignRetrospective cohort study of hospital admissions with ...
Yu Cao +6 more
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