Predictive Dispatch of Volunteer First Responders: Algorithm Development and Validation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smartphone-based emergency response apps are increasingly being used to identify and dispatch volunteer first responders (VFRs) to medical emergencies to provide faster first aid, which is associated with better prognoses. Volunteers' availability and willingness to respond are uncertain, leading in recent studies to response rates of 17% to 47%. Dispatch algorithms that select volunteers based on their estimated time of arrival (ETA) without considering the likelihood of response may be suboptimal due to a large percentage of alerts wasted on VFRs with shorter ETA but a low likelihood of response, resulting in delays until a volunteer who will actually respond can be dispatched.

Objective

This study aims to improve the decision-making process of human emergency m

SUBMITTER: Khalemsky M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10716760 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature