Variation in Prehospital Routing Patterns for Patients With Suspected Stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Our objective was to describe emergency medical services (EMS) transport destination practices for patients with suspected stroke using a novel linked data set of EMS patient care data and verified emergency department (ED) stroke-related capabilities.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional evaluation of EMS 9-1-1 encounters for patients with suspected stroke from 2019 to 2021 from the ESO Data Collaborative, linked to verified ED capabilities from the 2021 National ED Inventory-USA survey. Our primary outcome was transport to an ED with any stroke care capabilities. We used mixed effects logistic regression models with a random intercept for agency to estimate the odds of transport to an ED with stroke care capabilities. We used intraclass correlation coefficients an

SUBMITTER: Cash RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12826932 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature