Spatiotemporal access to emergency medical services in Wuhan, China: accounting for scene and transport time intervals

Abstract Background Access as a primary indicator of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) efficiency has been widely studied over the last few decades. Most previous studies considered one-way trips, either getting ambulances to patients or transporting patients to hospitals. This research assesses spati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Weicong Luo, Jing Yao, Richard Mitchell, Xiaoxiang Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-11-01
Series:International Journal of Health Geographics
Subjects:
EMS
GIS
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12942-020-00249-7