Epidemiological Determinants of Patient Non-Conveyance to the Hospital in an Emergency Medical Service Environment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The increasing prevalence of comorbidities worldwide has spurred the need for time-effective pre-hospital emergency medical services (EMS). Some pre-hospital emergency calls requesting EMS result in patient non-conveyance. Decisions for non-conveyance are sometimes driven by the patient or the clinician, which may jeopardize the patients' healthcare outcomes. This study aimed to explore the distribution and determinants of patient non-conveyance to hospitals in a Middle Eastern national Ambulance Service that promotes the transportation of all emergency call patients and does not adopt clinician-based non-conveyance decision.

Methods

Using R Language, descriptive, bivariate, and binary logistic regression analyses were conducted for 334,392 multi-national patient

SUBMITTER: Farhat H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10379159 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature