Close-Up on Ambulance Service Estimation in Indonesia: Monte Carlo Simulation Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency medical services have a pivotal role in giving timely and appropriate responses to emergency events caused by medical, natural, or human-caused disasters. To provide adequate resources for the emergency services, such as ambulances, it is necessary to understand the demand for such services. In Indonesia, estimates of demand for emergency services cannot be obtained easily due to a lack of published literature or official reports concerning the matter.

Objective

This study aimed to ascertain an estimate of the annual volume of hospital emergency visits and the corresponding demand for ambulance services in the city of Jakarta.

Methods

In this study, we addressed the problem of emergency services demand estimation when aggregated detailed data are

SUBMITTER: Brice SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11681287 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature