Project overview
Dynamic EMS Allocation studies prehospital patient safety as a system property:
dispatch, triage, response-time management, and allocation decisions under uncertainty distribute risk across patients and over time.
System framing
EMS operates under fluctuating demand, limited units, uncertain travel times, and incomplete information at the time of the call.
These constraints create a live queue and necessitate prioritisation and re-prioritisation across multiple competing calls.
The programme therefore evaluates safety using distributional performance (including tail delays) and heterogeneity in vulnerability.
Programme structure
- Study I: qualitative analysis of dispatcher work under scarcity.
- Study II: breathing emergencies—interpretable exploratory modelling of conditional risk patterns.
- Study III: infection presentations—concordance across dispatch suspicion, on-scene phenotype, and high-risk triage.
- Study IV: system drivers of response-time variability across operational, temporal, and geographic contexts.
Adaptive EMS Allocation 