https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/109701
標題: | RESOURCE REALLOCATION IN AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE SYSTEM USING COMPUTER SIMULATION 臺灣全民健康保險下照護利用型態與風險校正 |
作者: | SU, SYI SHIH, CHUNG-LIANG 蘇喜 石崇良 |
關鍵字: | Computer Simulation;Delivery of Health Care;Emergency Service;Hospital;Medical Records;Resource Allocation;Time Factors | 公開日期: | 2002 | 卷: | v.20 | 期: | n.7 | 起(迄)頁: | 627-34 | 來源出版物: | THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE | 摘要: | Emergency medical service (EMS) policy makers must seek to achieve maximum effectiveness with finite resources. This research establishes an EMS computer simulation model using eM-Plant software. The simulation model is based on Taipei city's EMS system with input data from prehospital care records from December 2000; it manipulates resource allocation levels and rates of idle errands. Presently, EMS ambulance utilization is about 8.78%. On average, 20.89 minutes are required to transport a patient to the hospital. Computer simulations showed that reducing the number of ambulances to one at each of the 36 response units increases the utilization rate to 15.47% but does not compromise the current service quality level. Thus, ambulance utilization improves, times of patients waiting for pre-hospital care and arrival at hospitals are only slightly affected, and considerable cost savings result. This study provides a research methodology and suggests specific policy directions for resource allocation in EMS. Limiting the number of ambulances to one per response unit reduces costs, increases efficiency, and yet maintains the same operational pattern of medical service. Copyright 2002, Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.) |
URI: | http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/64677 |
顯示於: | 健康政策與管理研究所 |
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