Abstract
Emergency Medical Services organizations are responsible for providing paramedic crews, vehicles and equipment to transfer patients from one location to another in emergency and non-emergency settings. They must solve difficult scheduling and assignment problems to ensure on-time arrival of patients and the efficient use of health care resources during non-emergency operations. Ambulances can serve both emergency and non-emergency requests but are rarely available to serve non-emergency requests. Therefore, non-emergency requests are the responsibility of Patient Transfer Units. The objective of this study is to develop a mathematical model that will assign Patient Transfer Units to non-emergency patient transfer requests, design a schedule that will minimize travel costs and balance workloads and apply it to a real-world case study. This paper also proposes a framework to utilize historical patient transfer data in the scheduling process. The mathematical model provides decision support for the non-emergency patient transfer scheduling process.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Health Care Systems Engineering, HCSE 2019 |
Editors | Valerie Belanger, Nadia Lahrichi, Ettore Lanzarone, Semih Yalcindag |
Place of Publication | Cham |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 3-12 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-030-39694-7 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-030-39693-0 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Event | 4th International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering, HCSE 2019 - Montréal, Canada Duration: 30 May 2019 → 1 Jun 2019 |
Publication series
Name | Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics |
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Volume | 316 |
ISSN (Print) | 2194-1009 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2194-1017 |
Conference
Conference | 4th International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering, HCSE 2019 |
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Country/Territory | Canada |
City | Montréal |
Period | 30/05/19 → 1/06/19 |
Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-careOtherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
Keywords
- Emergency Medical Services
- Healthcare
- Vehicle Routing