A US National Study of the Association Between Income and Ambulance Response Time in Cardiac Arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Emergency medical services (EMS) provide critical prehospital care, and disparities in response times to time-sensitive conditions, such as cardiac arrest, may contribute to disparities in patient outcomes.

Objectives

To investigate whether ambulance 9-1-1 times were longer in low-income vs high-income areas and to compare response times with national benchmarks of 4, 8, or 15 minutes across income quartiles.

Design, setting, and participants

A retrospective cross-sectional study was performed of the 2014 National Emergency Medical Services Information System data in June 2017 using negative binomial and logistic regressions to examine the association between zip code-level income and EMS response times. The study used ambulance 9-1-1 response data for out-

SUBMITTER: Hsia RY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324393 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature