Programme overview
Adaptive EMS Allocation as a patient safety net
Prehospital patient safety depends on how the EMS system functions under uncertainty—through dispatch, prioritisation, response-time management, and allocation decisions that dynamically distribute risk across patients and over time.
System framing
EMS operates with fluctuating demand, limited units, uncertain travel times, and incomplete information at the moment of the call. These constraints generate a live queue and require prioritisation and re-prioritisation across competing incidents.
- Why distributional performance (including tail delays) is safety-relevant
- How prioritisation shapes observed associations involving response time
- How vulnerability and workload interact in allocation outcomes
Interpretation guardrails
- Exploratory, not deployment: modelling is used to measure heterogeneity and non-linear patterns, not to automate dispatch decisions.
- Response time is endogenous: observed delay–outcome patterns must be interpreted with prioritisation and selection effects in view.
- Privacy-by-design: public outputs avoid identifiable incident data and overly granular geography.
Adaptive EMS Allocation 