Title :
Modeling requirements for an Emergency Medical Service system design evaluator
Author :
Inkyung Sung ; Taesik Lee
Author_Institution :
Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
Emergency Medical Service (EMS) consists of a chain of processes that encompass the on-scene management, patient transport, and care provision at an ED. Much research has been conducted in order to improve EMS design, and simulations are commonly used to evaluate EMS design. In many cases, a specific component of an EMS system is selected to model aspects relevant to the analysis, while the other EMS components are treated as model inputs and assumptions. This could lead to a fragmentary assessment because it does not capture the complexity of real EMS operations. Ideally, EMS designs should be evaluated by a model that represents the entire chain of EMS operations. In this paper, a wide spectrum of operation design problems of EMS systems and simulation models used in previous studies are examined. Then, a set of modeling requirements are defined and a model framework is proposed for EMS system design evaluator.
Keywords :
emergency services; health care; hospitals; patient care; transportation; EMS design; EMS system; care provision; emergency department; emergency medical service system design evaluator; healthcare delivery system; modeling requirements; on-scene management; operation design problems; patient care; patient transport; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Environmental management; Hospitals; System analysis and design; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference (WSC), Proceedings of the 2012 Winter
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4779-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0891-7736
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2012.6465089