Patients' aged ≥65 years dispositions during ambulance assignments, including factors associated with non-conveyance to hospital: a longitudinal and comparative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Patients ≥65 years old represent 30%-50% of all ambulance assignments (AAs), and the knowledge of which care level they are disposed to is limited and diverging. The aim of this study was therefore to describe and compare characteristics of patients' aged ≥65 years dispositions during AA, including determining changes over time and factors associated with non-conveyance to hospitals.

Design

A longitudinal and comparative database study.

Setting

Ambulance service in a Swedish region.

Participants

32 085 AAs with patients ≥65 years old during the years 2014, 2016 and 2018.

Exclusion criteria

AAs with interhospital patient transfers and lack of patients' dispositions data.

Outcome measures

Dependent factors: conveyance and non-conveyance t

SUBMITTER: Forsgarde ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7692831 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature