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Dispatch centres: what is the right population catchment size?

Fabrice Dami^1,2, Vincent Fuchs³, Olivier Hugli⁴

¹Emergency Medical Services, State of Vaud (Fondation Urgences-Santé), Lausanne, Switzerland. fabrice.dami@chuv.ch.

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Optimizing medical dispatch requires balancing service quality and costs. Research is needed to determine the ideal population catchment size for dispatch centers to achieve this balance effectively.

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Area of Science:

Emergency medical services
Healthcare management
Public health policy

Background:

Growing body of literature on medical dispatch focuses on efficiency metrics like undertriage and overtriage, and on dispatch-assisted CPR.
Key operational aspects such as population catchment size, functional costs, and rationalization of dispatch centers are infrequently addressed.
A trend towards fewer medical dispatch centers is observed in Europe, yet optimal size remains undefined.

Purpose of the Study:

To highlight the under-addressed issue of population catchment size in medical dispatch.
To investigate the relationship between catchment size, service quality, and operational costs.
To provide evidence for determining the optimal catchment size for medical dispatch centers.

Main Methods:

Literature review on medical dispatch efficiency, costs, and catchment size.
Analysis of trends in European dispatch center numbers.
Theoretical framework development for balancing quality and cost based on catchment size.

Main Results:

Existing research predominantly covers dispatch efficiency and CPR, neglecting catchment size and cost-effectiveness.
A clear trend of decreasing dispatch centers in Europe exists.
No current evidence defines the optimal catchment size for balancing service quality and costs.

Conclusions:

The critical issue of optimal population catchment size for medical dispatch centers requires further investigation.
Balancing high-quality emergency medical services with functional costs necessitates evidence-based decisions on dispatch center size.
Future research should focus on defining the ideal catchment size to rationalize emergency medical dispatch operations.