Abstract
AbstractForecasting the volume of emergency events is important for resource utilization in emergency medical services (EMS). This became more evident during the COVID-19 outbreak when emergency event forecasts used by various EMS at that time tended to be inaccurate due to fluctuations in the number, type, and geographical distribution of these events. The motivation for this study was to develop a statistical model capable of predicting the volume of emergency events for Lombardy’s regional EMS called AREU at different time horizons. To accomplish this goal, we propose a negative binomial additive autoregressive model with smoothing splines, which can predict over-dispersed counts of emergency events one, two, five, and seven days ahead. In the model development stage, a large set of covariates was considered, and the final model was selected using a cross-validation procedure that takes into account the observations’ temporal dependence. Comparisons of the forecasting performance using the mean absolute percentage error showed that the proposed model outperformed the model used by AREU, as well as other widely used forecasting models. Consequently, AREU decided to adopt the new model for its forecasting purposes.
Funder
Regione Lombardia
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,Statistics and Probability
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