GIS Automated Delineation of Hospital Service Areas

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Authors -- List of Major GIS Datasets and Program Files -- 1. Why Hospital Service Areas? -- 1.1 Hospital Service Area ( HSA) as a Functional Region -- 1.2 Value of HSAs -- 1.3 Study Area and Data -- 1.4 Overview of Remaining Chapters -- 2. Estimating Distance and Travel Time Matrices in GIS -- 2.1 Measures of Distance and Travel Time -- 2.2 Computing Distance and Drive Time Matrices in ArcGIS Pro -- 2.2.1 Computing Euclidean and Geodesic Distance Matrices in ArcGIS Pro -- 2.2.2 Computing a Drive Time Matrix in ArcGIS Pro -- 2.3 Estimating a Transit Travel Time Matrix in ArcGIS Pro -- 2.4 Estimating Drive Time and Transit Time Matrices by Google Maps API -- 2.5 Estimating a Large Drive Time Matrix by a Differential Sampling Approach -- 2.5.1 Estimating Preliminary Inter-zonal Times -- 2.5.2 Calibrating Inter-zonal Times on Randomly Sampled OD Pairs by Google Maps API -- 2.5.3 Appending Intra-zonal Times -- 2.6 Summary -- 3. Analysis of Spatial Behavior of Health Care Utilization in Distance Decay -- 3.1 Distance Decay Functions -- 3.2 Value of Analyzing Distance Decay Effects in Health Care Studies -- 3.3 Deriving the Distance Decay Functions by the Spatial Interaction Model -- 3.3.1 Estimating the Spatial Interaction Model -- 3.3.2 Distance Decay Effects across Geographic Areas in Florida -- 3.4 Deriving the Distance Decay Functions by a Complementary Cumulative Distribution Curve -- 3.4.1 Estimating the Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function -- 3.4.2 Distance Decay Effects Across Population Groups in Florida -- 3.5 Summary -- 4. Delineating Hospital Service Areas by the Dartmouth Method -- 4.1 History and Applications of Dartmouth HSAs and HRRs -- 4.2 The Dartmouth Method for Defining HSAs and HRRs.