ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022
Effect of Designating Emergency Medical Centers for Critical Care on Emergency Medical Service Systems during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Observational Study.
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- Factors associated with difficulty in hospital acceptance during the COVID-19 pandemic period in Osaka Prefecture, Japan: a population-based study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Emergency medical service interventions and experiences during pandemics: A scoping review.PloS one · 2024Article
- Clinical Presentation and Emergency Department Management Checkpoints of Acute Aortic Syndromes during the First Two Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Emergency Transport Refusal during the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A Critical Analysis of the COVID-19 Hospitalization Network in Countries with Limited Resources.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, prehospital times were delayed for patients who needed to arrive at the hospital in a timely manner to receive treatment. To address this, in March 2020, the Korean government designated emergency medical centers for critical care (EMC-CC). This study retrospectively analyzed whether this intervention effectively reduced ambulance diversion (AD) and shortened prehospital times using emergency medical service records from 219,763 patients from the Gyeonggi Province, collected between 1 January and 31 December 2020. We included non-traumatic patients aged 18 years or older. We used interrupted time series analysis to investigate the intervention effects on the daily AD rate and compared prehospital times before and after the intervention. Following the intervention, the proportion of patients transported 30-35 km and 50 km or more was 13.8% and 5.7%, respectively, indicating an increased distance compared to before the intervention. Although the change in the AD rate was insignificant, the daily AD rate significantly decreased after the intervention. Prehospital times significantly increased after the intervention in all patients (
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