Emergency Care Sensitive Conditions in Brazil: A Geographic Information System Approach to Timely Hospital Access.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The benefits of treatment for many conditions are time dependent. The burden of these emergency care sensitive conditions (ECSCs) is especially high in low- and middle-income countries. Our objective was to analyze geospatial trends in ECSCs and characterize regional disparities in access to emergency care in Brazil.

Methods

From publicly available datasets, we extracted data on patients assigned an ECSC-related ICD-10 code and on the country's emergency facilities from 2015-2019. Using ArcGIS, OpenStreetMap, and WorldPop, we created catchment areas corresponding to 180 minutes of driving distance from each hospital. We then used ArcGIS to characterize space-time trends in ECSC admissions and to complete an Origin-Destination analysis to determine the path from ho

SUBMITTER: Isaacson JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9903578 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature