Physician-manned prehospital emergency care in tertiary emergency centers in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Use of a physician-manned prehospital emergency medical service (EMS) has recently become widespread in Japan. Understanding the epidemiology of critically ill patients is essential for planning national and regional physician-manned prehospital EMS systems. However, current knowledge on patients receiving physician-manned prehospital EMS is sparse. The present study aimed to determine the clinical features of critically ill patients with and without physician-manned prehospital EMS, using a national inpatient database in Japan.

Methods

Using the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination inpatient database, we identified all hospitalized patients transported to tertiary emergency centers by physician-manned EMS or EMS without a physician from April 2014 to March 2015. We

SUBMITTER: Ohbe H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6442537 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature