ArticleBMC emergency medicine2023
Time indices of pre-hospital EMS missions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study in Iran.
Article in BMC emergency medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Evaluating CPR training: simulation vs. webinars for Iranian emergency medical technicians during COVID-19.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Trial
- A Retrospective Analysis of Nearly 3,000,000 Non-COVID-19 Mid- and High-Priority Ambulance Activations Before and During COVID-19: A National Study from Saudi Arabia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Analysis of mortality of users treated at a Mobile Emergency Care Service: an observational study, Paraná, 2019-2020.Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil · 2025Observational
- Enhancing Emergency Medical Services with Smart Glasses Technology for Optimal Ambulance Positioning in Simulated Critical Patient Care Scenarios.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Article
- Urban traffic accidents in Isfahan city: a study of prehospital response time intervals.International journal of emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Emergency medical services in Armenia: national call trends and future directions.International journal of emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Identifying mitigation strategies of comprehensive health centers against dust hazard: a qualitative study in Iran.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Article
- Effects of Dispatcher-Assisted Public-Access Defibrillation Programs on the Outcomes of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Before-and-After Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Article
- Factors associated with prolonged on-scene time in ambulance transportation among patients with minor diseases or injuries in Japan: a population-based observational study.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Observational
- The relationship between spiritual health and quality of life among COVID-19 patients with long-term complications in the post-coronavirus era.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The trend of change in the role of pre-hospital emergency medical services in Iran's healthcare system: a situational analysis.BMC emergency medicine · 2023Article
- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on trauma-related emergency medical service in older people: a retrospective cohort study.BMC emergency medicine · 2023Article
- Lasting Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Prehospital Emergency Medical Service Missions.Open access emergency medicine : OAEM · 2023Article
- Emergency Medical Service in the Elderly Population in Iran: A Cross-sectional Study Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Gerontology & geriatric medicineArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many changes in pre-hospital emergency medical services (EMS), including wearing full-body protective suits and well-fitted face masks, which can influence time indices in the course of service delivery. The present study aimed to compare the time indices of pre-hospital EMS missions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran.
methodsThis descriptive cross-sectional study used census sampling to select 17,860 emergency calls that caused patient transfer to medical facilities from March 2018 to March 2021 and then examined the time indices of pre-hospital EMS missions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data collection tool was a two-part checklist: patients' individual characteristics and pre-hospital EMS mission time indices. The data were further analyzed using the SPSS16 and independent samples t-test.
resultsOut of the patients transferred by the EMS, 11,773 cases (65.9%) were male and 6,087 (34.1%) were female. The most common reason for the emergency calls was accidents (28.0%). Moreover, response time (P < 0.001), on-scene time (P < 0.001), transfer time (P < 0.001), total run time (P < 0.001), and round trip time (P < 0.001) increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
conclusionsWe concluded that the EMS time indices elevated following the COVID-19 pandemic. Updating pre-hospital information management systems, ambulances and medical equipment, as well as holding training courses for pre-hospital EMS personnel could effectively enhance the time indices of pre-hospital EMS missions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.