Pandemic hospital site selection: a GIS-based MCDM approach employing Pythagorean fuzzy sets

AÇ Boyacı, A Şişman - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022 - Springer
COVID-19 poses many challenges for hospitals around the world. Each country attempts to
solve the problems in its hospitals using different methods. In Turkey, two pandemic …

Mapping population-level spatial access to essential surgical care in Ghana using availability of bellwether procedures

BT Stewart, G Tansley, A Gyedu, A Ofosu… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Conditions that can be treated by surgery comprise more than 16% of the global
disease burden. However, 5 billion people do not have access to essential surgical care. An …

The birth and growth of the National Ambulance Service in Ghana

A Zakariah, BT Stewart, E Boateng… - … and disaster medicine, 2017 - cambridge.org
Introduction This study aimed to document the growth and challenges encountered in the
decade since inception of the National Ambulance Service (NAS) in Ghana, West Africa. By …

Site selection of natural gas emergency response team centers in Istanbul metropolitan area based on GIS and FAHP

MŞ Sarıkaya, M Yanalak, H Karaman - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The location of natural gas emergency response team centers (NGERTCs) is critical in terms
of addressing natural gas notifications that require a timely emergency response. The …

Generating a spatial coverage plan for the emergency medical service on a regional scale: Empirical versus random forest modelling approach

M Dolejš, J Purchard, A Javorčák - Journal of Transport Geography, 2020 - Elsevier
Adequate spatial coverage by the emergency medical service and the ability to reach any
location in the area of interest in the shortest possible time are crucial for the survival of …

Ambulance use, distance and outcomes in patients with suspected cardiovascular disease: a registry-based geographic information system study

N Sepehrvand, W Alemayehu, P Kaul… - … Heart Journal: Acute …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Despite guideline recommendations, the majority of patients with symptoms
suggestive of acute coronary syndrome do not use emergency medical services to reach the …

A study on GIS-based spatial analysis of emergency response for disaster management: Focusing on Seoul

HS Park, SA Kwon, M Azam - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
This study aims to analyze the operation of fire emergency dispatch, understand the impact
of golden time on fire emergency dispatch, and identify factors and improvement measures …

Construction of a dynamic arrival time coverage map for emergency medical services

A Piórkowski - Open Geosciences, 2018 - degruyter.com
This article presents a design of coverage maps for emergency journeys made by
emergency medical services. The system was designed for the Malopolskie Voivodeship …

Optimize the Planning of Ambulance Standby Points by Using Getis-Ord Gi* Based on Historical Emergency Data

H Yi, Z Xu, J Song, P Wang - IOP Conference Series: Earth and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we first find the hot spots of emergency call events from a large number of
historical pre-hospital medical data, and then plan ambulance standby points to shorten the …

[PDF][PDF] An Overview of the Studies of Health Information Systems in Turkey

O Sebetci, M Aksel - International Journal of Computer Science …, 2016 - researchgate.net
This paper presented a literature review about health information systems. Health
information technology gives information about health section data and data generation …