Locating helicopter emergency medical service bases to optimise population coverage versus average response time

Locating helicopter emergency medical service bases to optimise population coverage versus average response time

Abstract Background New South Wales (NSW), Australia has a network of multirole retrieval physician staffed helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) with seven bases servicing a jurisdiction with population concentrated along the eastern seaboard. The aim of this study was to estimate optimal HE...

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Main Authors: Alan A. Garner, Pieter L. van den Berg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:BMC Emergency Medicine
Subjects:
Helicopter
Bases
Modelling
Optimization
Coverage
Response
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12873-017-0142-5

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