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UnknownNCT04670835
Modeling the Impact of Inbound Call Distribution Virtualization in Emergency Medical Communication Centers (EMCCs) on Their Service Level
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 1,500,000 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Nantes University Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Fast access to the Emergency Medical Communication Center (EMCC) is essential for the population in emergency situation. It is therefore essential that these call centers operate quickly and provide good quality service. However, in recent years, EMCCs have experienced a constant and increasing demand from the population. Thus, maintaining the current organization of emergency medical communication centers raises questions about both the volume of incoming calls to EMCCs and the economic constraints, which make it difficult to manage call peaks, especially in periods of crisis. The aim of our study is to assess the impact of incoming call distribution virtualization in EMCCs on their service quality.
Detailed description
France is facing political decisions on the evolution of Emergency Medical Communication Center organization to improve population accessibility. Regarding the performance targets requested by the French government (MARCUS report: http://www.urgences113.fr/marcus/Rapport\_MARCUS3.pdf), the virtualization of inbound call distribution could improve EMCC service quality indicators. The Virtualization is a process that consists of centralizing calls from different territories before distributing them to the centers concerned according to their availability. The objective through this process is to improve the population' access to the EMCC by reducing waits time. And on the other hand, to optimize the activity rate of dispatchers and physicians.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2021-01-15
- Primary completion
- 2021-12-16
- Completion
- 2022-12-16
- First posted
- 2020-12-17
- Last updated
- 2020-12-17
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04670835. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.