Non-emergency Patient Transfer Scheduling and Assignment

Emergency Medical Services organizations are responsible for providing paramedic crews, vehicles and equipment to transfer patients from one location to another in emergency and non-emergency settings. They must solve difficult scheduling and assignment problems to ensure on-time arrival of patients and the efficient use of health care...

Emergency medical services and beyond: Addressing new challenges through a wide literature review

One of the most important health care services is emergency medical service as it plays a vital role in saving people's lives and reducing the rate of mortality and morbidity. Over the last years, many review papers have discussed emergency medical services (EMS) location problems, however, only few review papers consider the full range of EMS...