Predicting Emergency Medical Service Demand in a Rural Region.

Abstract

The report presents a method of predicting Emergency Medical Service Demand by the use of models developed by a multivariate linear regression of historical ambulance run data against selected population and socioeconomic characteristics of a selected region. To utilize the models the population and socioeconomic characteristics are projected to the desired years and projected demand is then obtained from the models. The total demand can be subdivided into five categories of incidents to further increase the usefulness of the technique. Data from a test region produced models that showed very high correlation with the variables used and were acceptable at the five percent level.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA026760

Entities

People

  • Gene D. Duncan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ambulances
  • Emergencies
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Rescue Equipment

Readers

  • Medical or Health Care Field.
  • Regression Analysis.