Socioeconomic factors influencing rural-urban ambulance response time disparities in Connecticut.

ABSTRACT: Across the U.S, it is a documented fact that rural areas have longer ambulance response times and tend to have lower median income. The objective of this study was to test if the rural-urban emergency medical service (EMS) response time disparity was related to wealth disparity in the state of Connecticut. All mean EMS response times were sourced from the 2016 Office of Emergency Medical Services Data Report. Rural definitions were sourced from the Connecticut Office of Rural Health. Median income data was drawn from the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management. A Mann-Whitney U test determined if the average rural EMS response time was greater than the non-rural EMS response time. Pearson coefficients quantified the relationship between median income and EMS response time. A t-test asc

SUBMITTER: Krishna E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11615172 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature