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Measuring the Impact of Various Dispatching Procedures on Response Time, Backlog, Availability and Patient Care in an Urban Setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

David DeLucia  and
Emil Pascarelli
David DeLucia
Affiliation:
From theNew York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Maspeth, New York, USA.
Emil Pascarelli
Affiliation:
From theNew York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Maspeth, New York, USA.
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A study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded that in a large city, a minimum of eight ambulances per 500,000 population was desirable to assure a reasonable response time.

How does a large city with less than this suggested minimum make best use of its available ambulance units ?

A three week study was conducted in New York City to examine the impact of various dispatching procedures on response time, “backlog”, availability of “back-up” units and patient care.

Type
Part I: Research-Education-Organization
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 61
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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