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Ambulance ramping in Victoria lost over 1.49M hours, study finds

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A new paper analyzes ambulance ramping delays in Victoria, Australia, from January 2020 to March 2024, using data from over 2 million ambulance transports. The study found that cumulative ambulance hours lost due to ramping totaled over 1.49 million hours, with ten hospitals accounting for over half of these losses. The analysis indicates a 57% increase in annual lost hours by 2022, despite a slight decrease in transported demand, suggesting a decline in handover efficiency. The duration of handover was found to be less dependent on patient acuity and more on the number of ambulances arriving at the same hospital concurrently. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Ayesha Tanveer, Khandakar Ahmed, Assefa Teshome, Oyetunde Gbadeyan, Ziad Nehme ·

    Quantifying the Impact of Ambulance Ramping: A Multi-Year Analysis of Victorian Emergency Medical Services Cases

    arXiv:2610.00818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ambulance ramping, the delay between hospital arrival and patient handover, is a critical operational bottleneck in Emergency Medical Services (EMS), yet its systemic magnitude and dynamics remain inadequately characterised at scale…

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