Acceptance of a Volunteer First-Responder System in Rural Communities: A Field Experiment

Myrick, Justin A.; Kay, Bonnie J.; Kishbaugh, Darlene; Pittman, Julian V.; Sayford, Nelson F.

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“…Such investigations have been conducted by several researchers across the world. Myrick et al (1983) studied the effect of trained volunteers in medical emergency responses in rural, medically underserved, areas of central Georgia, USA. These authors focused on environmental factors, such as the size of a community, affecting the willingness of people to use a voluntary system for medical emergencies.…”

Section: Effective Utilization Of Volunteersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Models for Dispatch of Volunteers in Daily Emergency Response

Matinrad

2022

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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Sufficient emergency resources are essential for emergency services to provide timely help to affected people and to minimize damage to public and private assets and the environment. Emergency services, however, face resource shortages and increasing demand over time. As a result, their response times increase, resulting in lower survival chances of affected people and more severe damage to properties and the environment. Thus, emergency services need to utilize and effectively manage all their available resources. These can be divided into traditional resources, such as ambulances, and new and emerging resources, such as volunteers. Models and methods developed using operations research (OR) methodologies can facilitate the management of these resources. However, despite a rich literature on OR-based models and methods focusing on traditional resources, the literature on new and emerging resources, and specifically volunteers, is scarce.The aim of this thesis is to develop models and methods for task assignment and dispatch of volunteers to daily medical emergencies. This also includes forecasting models for future emergencies. The developed models and methods consider volunteer programs in Sweden and the Netherlands, employing real historical data.The aim has been addressed through three studies, one main study and two substudies, the results of which are presented in the six included papers. The main study focuses on the development of models, methods, and strategies for task assignment and dispatch of volunteers to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases using OR.To evaluate the survival rates of these patients, the most important health outcome of a response process, survival functions have been used in the development of these models and strategies. The results of this study are presented in Papers Ⅱ-Ⅴ. The first sub-study investigates different types of new and emerging resources used in daily medical emergency response, and the results are presented as an overview of the literature in Paper Ⅰ. The second sub-study focuses on the forecast of medical emergency demand, and its outcomes are presented in Paper Ⅵ.The overall conclusion is that the use of OR-based models and methods can contribute to improved outcomes and increased survival probabilities compared to the strategies and techniques used in the existing systems. vi vii This PhD journey has been a roller coaster ride with many ups and downs. At times, the upward stretches were long and slow while the downward ones were deep, feeling as though they would never end. Despite all the challenges along the way, it was a very enjoyable experience, giving me the opportunity to learn many lessons and grow. It would not have been possible to finish this roller coaster ride and write this thesis alone; I have been lucky to have had many people with me throughout this time, cheering me on, helping me, and supporting me, to whom I am sincerely grateful.First and foremost, I would like to thank my supervisors, Tobias Andersson Granberg, Jan Lundgren, and Anna ...

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Section: Effective Utilization Of Volunteersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Models for Dispatch of Volunteers in Daily Emergency Response

Matinrad

2022

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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Equity in Rural Health and Health Care

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2001

Handbook of Rural Health

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A review on initiatives for the management of daily medical emergencies prior to the arrival of emergency medical services

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Reuter-Oppermann

2021

Cent Eur J Oper Res

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Emergency services worldwide face increasing cost pressure that potentially limits their existing resources. In many countries, emergency services also face the issues of staff shortage–creating extra challenges and constraints, especially during crisis times such as the COVID-19 pandemic–as well as long distances to sparsely populated areas resulting in longer response times. To overcome these issues and potentially reduce consequences of daily (medical) emergencies, several countries, such as Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands, have started initiatives using new types of human resources as well as equipment, which have not been part of the existing emergency systems before. These resources are employed in response to medical emergency cases if they can arrive earlier than emergency medical services (EMS). A good number of studies have investigated the use of these new types of resources in EMS systems, from medical, technical, and logistical perspectives as their study domains. Several review papers in the literature exist that focus on one or several of these new types of resources. However, to the best of our knowledge, no review paper that comprehensively considers all new types of resources in emergency medical response systems exists. We try to fill this gap by presenting a broad literature review of the studies focused on the different new types of resources, which are used prior to the arrival of EMS. Our objective is to present an application-based and methodological overview of these papers, to provide insights to this important field and to bring it to the attention of researchers as well as emergency managers and administrators.

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Acceptance of a Volunteer First-Responder System in Rural Communities: A Field Experiment

Cited by 5 publications

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Models for Dispatch of Volunteers in Daily Emergency Response

Models for Dispatch of Volunteers in Daily Emergency Response

Equity in Rural Health and Health Care

A review on initiatives for the management of daily medical emergencies prior to the arrival of emergency medical services

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