سایت تخصصی مدیریت خدمات بهداشتی و درمانی | HCSM
Factors Affecting the Location of Road Emergency Bases in Iran Using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)
Abstract
Objective: To identify and prioritize factors affecting the location of road emergency bases in Iran using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP).
Methods: This was a mixed method (quantitative-qualitative) study conducted in 2016. The participants in this study included the professionals and experts in the field of pre-hospital and road emergency services issues working in the Health Deputy of Iran Ministry of Health and Medical Education, which were selected using purposive sampling method. In this study at first, the factors affecting the location of road emergency bases in Iran were identified using literature review and conducting interviews with the experts. Then, the identified factors were scored and prioritized using the studied professionals and experts’ viewpoints through using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique and its related pair-wise questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed using MAXQDA 10.0 software to analyze the answers given to the open question and Expert Choice 10.0 software to determine the weights and priorities of the identified factors.
Results: The results showed that eight factors were effective in locating the road emergency bases in Iran from the viewpoints of the studied professionals and experts in the field of pre-hospital and road emergency services issues, including respectively distance from the next base, region population, topography and geographical situation of the region, the volume of road traffic, the existence of amenities such as water, electricity, gas, etc. and proximity to the village, accident-prone sites, University ownership of the base site, and proximity to toll-house.
Conclusion: Among the eight factors which were effective in locating the road emergency bases from the studied professionals and experts’ perspectives, “distance from the next base” and “region population” were respectively the most important ones which had great differences with other factors.
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– Bahadori MK, Hajebrahimi ّA, Alimohammadzadeh KH, Ravangard R, Hoseini SM. Factors affecting the location of road emergency bases in Iran using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). Bulletin of Emergency And Trauma 2017; 5(4):299-302
Vol 5, No 4 OCT 2017
Table of Contents
Review Article
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Bradley J. Phillips, Lauren M. Turco
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221-230
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Original
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Ali Mehrshad, Mohammad Shahraki, Shahin Ehteshamfar
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231-239
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Maryam Iman, Mostafa Araghi, Yunes Panahi, Rahim Mohammadi
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240-248
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Mehdi Dehghani, Negar Azarpira, Vahid Mohammad Karimi, Hamid Mossayebi, Elaheh Esfandiari
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249-258
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Vikram Khanna, Ashish Gupta, Sanjeev Kumar
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259-265
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Pradeep Kumar Meena, Sahil Gaba, Sandesh Bobade, Rajendra Verma, Amrut Borade, Jayesh Sonaje, Ankit Chouhan
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266-272
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Haleh Ghaem, Maryam Soltani, Mahnaz Yadollahi, Tanaz Valad Beigi, Atousa Fakherpour
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273-279
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Robab Mehdizadeh Esfanjani, Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, Mina Goletsani, Reza Mohammadi
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280-284
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Batoul Sedaghati Shokri, Seyed Rasoul Davoodi, Majid Azimmohseni, Gholamreza Khoshfar
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285-291
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Mohammadreza Maleki, Seyyed Meysam Mousavi, Mina Anjomshoa, Nasrin Shaarbafchizadeh, Zeinab Naimi Taleghani
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292-298
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Mohammad Karim Bahadori, Ahmad Hajebrahimi, Khalil Alimohammadzadeh, Ramin Ravangard, Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini
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299-302
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Case Report
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Saptarshi Biswas, Boris Hristov
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303-306
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Pankaj Sharma, Nishank Mehta, Amit Narayan
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307-310
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Suvashis Dash, Shibajyoti Ghosh
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311-313
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