Name
Title | ||
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Linear programming applications to the evaluation of the pre-hospital care phase of an emergency medical services system |
Abstract | ||
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In the development of models for evaluating the quality of care rendered to ambulance transport patients, clustering of patients is a fundamental requirement. To determine the level of care, patients must be grouped into classes relative to severity, risk and quality. Sources of variation which affect care can be partially controlled by clustering patients into "homogeneous" groups. The most serious obstacle to the clustering of patients is the fact that most information available is not quantitative in nature. To resolve this problem, psychometric techniques are integrated into linear programming models to produce an evaluation methodology. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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1977 | 10.1145/1795396.1795466 | ACM-SE 15 Proceedings of the 15th annual Southeast regional conference |
Keywords | DocType | Citations |
linear programming model,psychometric technique,evaluation methodology,pre-hospital care phase,linear programming application,fundamental requirement,clustering patient,emergency medical services system,serious obstacle,ambulance transport patient,availability,maintainability,systems life cycle,software engineering,corrective maintenance,linear program,preventive maintenance,reliability,capability | Conference | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank K. Nagurney | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Harvey Wolfe | 2 | 5 | 1.10 |
| Larry J. Shuman | 3 | 6 | 2.56 |