Emergency medical services delivery performance based on real map

Performance of emergency medical services delivery is normally benchmarked via ambulance response time. Quick ambulance response can efficiently reduce the disability and mortality of emergency patients. Ambulance dispatch policy and location model both have a significant impact on the response time...

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Main Author:	Azizan, Mohd. Hafiz
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78274/1/MohdHafizAzizanMFKE20141.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.782742018-08-03T08:47:07Z Emergency medical services delivery performance based on real map 2014-01 Azizan, Mohd. Hafiz TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Performance of emergency medical services delivery is normally benchmarked via ambulance response time. Quick ambulance response can efficiently reduce the disability and mortality of emergency patients. Ambulance dispatch policy and location model both have a significant impact on the response time. A proper dispatch policy can determine the right ambulance for the incoming emergency call. Meanwhile, the use of location model can increase the ambulance coverage. Nevertheless, the applications of both dispatch policy and location model are yet to be seen in Malaysia ambulance services. There is also a lack of academic contributions focusing on a simulation study of emergency medical services in Malaysia, especially those using local geographic information. In this research, a simulation framework is presented to study the response time performance of a simulation model that consists of both the dispatch policy and location model. Several real-life dispatch policies were simulated in a real map by using actual geographic information to evaluate the efficiency of ambulance services in Johor Bahru. By using a suitable dispatch policy, the simulation results show an improvement in average response time for higher-priority call while the total covered calls have increased significantly with the application of maximal covering location problem. At nine ambulances, the achieved maximum coverage is 68% for using the location model compared to merely 45% prior to the implementation. 2014-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78274/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78274/1/MohdHafizAzizanMFKE20141.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:79544 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
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topic	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering Azizan, Mohd. Hafiz Emergency medical services delivery performance based on real map
description	Performance of emergency medical services delivery is normally benchmarked via ambulance response time. Quick ambulance response can efficiently reduce the disability and mortality of emergency patients. Ambulance dispatch policy and location model both have a significant impact on the response time. A proper dispatch policy can determine the right ambulance for the incoming emergency call. Meanwhile, the use of location model can increase the ambulance coverage. Nevertheless, the applications of both dispatch policy and location model are yet to be seen in Malaysia ambulance services. There is also a lack of academic contributions focusing on a simulation study of emergency medical services in Malaysia, especially those using local geographic information. In this research, a simulation framework is presented to study the response time performance of a simulation model that consists of both the dispatch policy and location model. Several real-life dispatch policies were simulated in a real map by using actual geographic information to evaluate the efficiency of ambulance services in Johor Bahru. By using a suitable dispatch policy, the simulation results show an improvement in average response time for higher-priority call while the total covered calls have increased significantly with the application of maximal covering location problem. At nine ambulances, the achieved maximum coverage is 68% for using the location model compared to merely 45% prior to the implementation.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Azizan, Mohd. Hafiz
author_facet	Azizan, Mohd. Hafiz
author_sort	Azizan, Mohd. Hafiz
title	Emergency medical services delivery performance based on real map
title_short	Emergency medical services delivery performance based on real map
title_full	Emergency medical services delivery performance based on real map
title_fullStr	Emergency medical services delivery performance based on real map
title_full_unstemmed	Emergency medical services delivery performance based on real map
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granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate	2014
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78274/1/MohdHafizAzizanMFKE20141.pdf
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Emergency medical services delivery performance based on real map

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