Valérie Bélanger

TL;DR: Modern modeling approaches to address problems related to ambulance fleet management, particularly those related to vehicle location and relocation, as well as dispatching decisions are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a generic discrete event simulation-based analysis tool, which can be adapted to a wide range of emergency medical services contexts and can identify several common characteristics and processes from one EMS context to another.

TL;DR: Empirical study confirms that dynamic strategies dominate static ones and quantifies the improvements achieved with respect to service level, but also shows that such improvements are obtained at the expense of significant relocation costs.

TL;DR: A recursive simulation-optimization framework which encompasses a mathematical formulation for the ALDP and a discrete event simulation model that produces both empirical estimations of the ambulance availability and the system’s performance is proposed.

TL;DR: A systematic review of published evidence concerning patient prioritization tools’ characteristics, their metrological properties, and their effect measures across non-emergency services will benefit clinicians, decision-makers, and researchers by giving them a better understanding of the methods used to prioritize patients in clinical settings.