Advanced search
Publication Cover
Prehospital Emergency Care Volume 15, 2011 - Issue 3
Submit an article Journal homepage
601
Views
22
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Focus on EMS Utilization

The Association Between Ambulance Hospital Turnaround Times and Patient Acuity, Destination Hospital, and Time of Day

Steve Vandeventer From the Mecklenburg EMS Agency (SV, SRW, KS), Charlotte, North Carolina; Carolinas Medical Center (JRS, TB), The Center for Prehospital Medicine and Mecklenburg EMS Agency (a joint agency of Mecklenburg County, Carolinas Healthcare System and Presbyterian Healthcare System), Charlotte, North Carolina; and the Department of Emergency Medicine (JSG), Baylor Health, Dallas, Texas. Revision received December 7, 2010; accepted for publication December 20, 2010.
, EMT-P,
Jonathan R. Studnek From the Mecklenburg EMS Agency (SV, SRW, KS), Charlotte, North Carolina; Carolinas Medical Center (JRS, TB), The Center for Prehospital Medicine and Mecklenburg EMS Agency (a joint agency of Mecklenburg County, Carolinas Healthcare System and Presbyterian Healthcare System), Charlotte, North Carolina; and the Department of Emergency Medicine (JSG), Baylor Health, Dallas, Texas. Revision received December 7, 2010; accepted for publication December 20, 2010.Correspondence[email protected]
, PhD, NREMT-P,
John S. Garrett From the Mecklenburg EMS Agency (SV, SRW, KS), Charlotte, North Carolina; Carolinas Medical Center (JRS, TB), The Center for Prehospital Medicine and Mecklenburg EMS Agency (a joint agency of Mecklenburg County, Carolinas Healthcare System and Presbyterian Healthcare System), Charlotte, North Carolina; and the Department of Emergency Medicine (JSG), Baylor Health, Dallas, Texas. Revision received December 7, 2010; accepted for publication December 20, 2010.
, MD,
Steven R. Ward From the Mecklenburg EMS Agency (SV, SRW, KS), Charlotte, North Carolina; Carolinas Medical Center (JRS, TB), The Center for Prehospital Medicine and Mecklenburg EMS Agency (a joint agency of Mecklenburg County, Carolinas Healthcare System and Presbyterian Healthcare System), Charlotte, North Carolina; and the Department of Emergency Medicine (JSG), Baylor Health, Dallas, Texas. Revision received December 7, 2010; accepted for publication December 20, 2010.
, NREMT-P,
Kevin Staley From the Mecklenburg EMS Agency (SV, SRW, KS), Charlotte, North Carolina; Carolinas Medical Center (JRS, TB), The Center for Prehospital Medicine and Mecklenburg EMS Agency (a joint agency of Mecklenburg County, Carolinas Healthcare System and Presbyterian Healthcare System), Charlotte, North Carolina; and the Department of Emergency Medicine (JSG), Baylor Health, Dallas, Texas. Revision received December 7, 2010; accepted for publication December 20, 2010.
, MPA, EMT-P &
Tom Blackwell From the Mecklenburg EMS Agency (SV, SRW, KS), Charlotte, North Carolina; Carolinas Medical Center (JRS, TB), The Center for Prehospital Medicine and Mecklenburg EMS Agency (a joint agency of Mecklenburg County, Carolinas Healthcare System and Presbyterian Healthcare System), Charlotte, North Carolina; and the Department of Emergency Medicine (JSG), Baylor Health, Dallas, Texas. Revision received December 7, 2010; accepted for publication December 20, 2010.
, MD
Pages 366-370 | Published online: 11 Apr 2011

Citations (22)

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Subscribe to citation updates

Read on this site (8)

Aaron M. Burnett, Kari B. Haley, Matthew F. Milder, Bjorn K. Peterson, Joey Duren, Andrew Stevens, Danielle M. Hermes, Paul Nystrom, Joseph Lippert, Jennifer L. Moberg & Kurt M. Isenberger. (2023) Elimination of Emergency Department Ambulance Divert during the COVID-19 Pandemic Was Not Associated with an Increase in the Average Number of Ambulance Arrivals per Day. Prehospital Emergency Care 0:0, pages 1-7.
Read now
Alvaro Junior Caicedo-Rolón, Juan José Bravo-Bastidas & Leonardo Rivera-Cadavid. (2022) Hospital selection and patient transport model in the emergency medical system. IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering 12:3, pages 232-244.
Read now
Kayla McManus, Erik Finlay, Sam Palmer, Jennifer F. Anders, Phyllis Hendry & Jennifer N. Fishe. (2020) A Statewide Analysis of EMS’ Pediatric Transport Destination Decisions. Prehospital Emergency Care 24:5, pages 672-682.
Read now
Sriram Ramgopal, Jennifer Dunnick, Sylvia Owusu-Ansah, Nalyn Siripong, David D. Salcido & Christian Martin-Gill. (2019) Weather and Temporal Factors Associated with Use of Emergency Medical Services. Prehospital Emergency Care 23:6, pages 802-810.
Read now
Joseph Felice, Ryan F. Coughlin, Kevin Burns, Christopher Chmura, Sandy Bogucki, David C. Cone, Daniel Joseph, Vivek Parwani, Fangyong Li, Thomas Saxa & Andrew Ulrich. (2019) Effects of Real-time EMS Direction on Optimizing EMS Turnaround and Load-balancing Between Neighboring Hospital Campuses. Prehospital Emergency Care 23:6, pages 788-794.
Read now
Sheila Steer, Mary C. Bhalla, Jon Zalewski, Jennifer Frey, Victor Nguyen & Francis Mencl. (2016) Use of Radio Frequency Identification to Establish Emergency Medical Service Offload Times. Prehospital Emergency Care 20:2, pages 254-259.
Read now
S Lee. (2013) Centrality-based ambulance dispatching for demanding emergency situations. Journal of the Operational Research Society 64:4, pages 611-618.
Read now
Vincent A Knight & Paul R Harper. (2012) Modelling emergency medical services with phase-type distributions. Health Systems 1:1, pages 58-68.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (14)

Anthony Carnicelli, Dale G. Edwards & Anne-Marie Williams. (2023) Paramedic Education to Support the Use of Low-Acuity Care Pathways: A Scoping Review Protocol. Nursing Reports 13:1, pages 265-272.
Crossref
Marcos Colla, Gilson Ditzel Santos, Gilson Adamczuk Oliveira & Renata Braga Berenguer de Vasconcelos. (2023) Ambulance response time in a Brazilian emergency medical service. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 85, pages 101434.
Crossref
Selene Cerna, Héber H. Arcolezi, Christophe Guyeux, Guillaume Royer-Fey & Céline Chevallier. (2021) Machine learning-based forecasting of firemen ambulances’ turnaround time in hospitals, considering the COVID-19 impact. Applied Soft Computing 109, pages 107561.
Crossref
Erik Finlay, Sam Palmer, Benjamin Abes, Benjamin Abo & Jennifer Fishe. (2021) Clinical, Operational, and Socioeconomic Analysis of EMS Bypass of the Closest Facility for Pediatric Asthma Patients. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 22:4, pages 972-978.
Crossref
Alvaro Junior Caicedo Rolón & Leonardo Rivera Cadavid. (2021) Hospital selection in emergency medical service systems: A literature review. Gerencia y Políticas de Salud 20.
Crossref
Frida Malm, Annika Elfström, Emma Ohlsson-Nevo & Erik Höglund. (2021) Time consumption for non-conveyed patients within emergency medical services (EMS): A one-year prospective descriptive and comparative study in a region of Sweden. PLOS ONE 16:5, pages e0251686.
Crossref
Seong Hyeon Park & Young Hoon Lee. (2019) Two-Tiered Ambulance Dispatch and Redeployment considering Patient Severity Classification Errors. Journal of Healthcare Engineering 2019, pages 1-14.
Crossref
Chris Kingswell, Ramon Z. Shaban & Julia Crilly. (2017) Concepts, antecedents and consequences of ambulance ramping in the emergency department: A scoping review. Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal 20:4, pages 153-160.
Crossref
Seokcheon Lee. (2015) A new preparedness policy for EMS logistics. Health Care Management Science 20:1, pages 105-114.
Crossref
Seokcheon Lee. (2014) Role of Parallelism in Ambulance Dispatching. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 44:8, pages 1113-1122.
Crossref
A Clarey, M Allen, S Brace-McDonnell & M W Cooke. (2014) Ambulance handovers: can a dedicated ED nurse solve the delay in ambulance turnaround times?. Emergency Medicine Journal 31:5, pages 419-420.
Crossref
Holly M. Buschhorn, Tania D. Strout, J. Matthew Sholl & Michael R. Baumann. (2013) Emergency Medical Services Triage Using the Emergency Severity Index: Is it Reliable and Valid?. Journal of Emergency Nursing 39:5, pages e55-e63.
Crossref
Ramon Alanis, Armann Ingolfsson & Bora Kolfal. (2013) A Markov Chain Model for an EMS System with Repositioning. Production and Operations Management 22:1, pages 216-231.
Crossref
Lawrence H. Brown & Ian E. Blanchard. (2012) Energy, emissions and emergency medical services: Policy matters. Energy Policy 46, pages 585-593.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.