Paediatric use of emergency medical services in India: A retrospective cohort study of one million children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Millions of children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) experience illness or trauma amenable to emergency medical interventions, but local resources are not sufficient to treat them. Emergency medical services (EMS), including ambulance transport, bridge the gap between local services and higher-level hospital care, and data collected by EMS could be used to elucidate patterns of paediatric health care need and use. Here we conducted a retrospective observational study of patterns of paediatric use of EMS services by children who used EMS in India, a leader in maternal and child EMS development, to inform public health needs and system interventions to improve EMS effectiveness.

Methods

We analysed three years (2013-2015) of data from patients <18 years

SUBMITTER: Newberry JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9569422 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature