Emergencies [Disease/Finding] Clinical Trial
Official title:
Ten-year Trends in the Pre-hospital Emergency Care Spectrum in Beijing From 2005 to 2014: A Multicenter, Retrospective, Observational Study
Verified date | January 2016 |
Source | Peking University People's Hospital |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | China: Ministry of Health |
Study type | Observational |
This was a retrospective analysis of a cohort of all emergency care patients in Beijing from January 2005 to December 2014. This aim of this study was to analyze the trends in pre-hospital emergency care need and the emergency response times, with the intention of aiding the government to optimize medical resources and improve pre-hospital emergency care.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 3909746 |
Est. completion date | December 2014 |
Est. primary completion date | December 2014 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | Both |
Age group | N/A and older |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - All patients treated by pre-hospital care from the Beijing Emergency Medical Center and Beijing Red Cross Emergency Center from January 2005 to December 2014 Exclusion Criteria: - missing data - duplicate records - no identifiable chief cause cases - not emergency cases |
Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Retrospective
Country | Name | City | State |
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China | Beijing Emergency Center, Beijing, China | Beijing | Beijing |
China | Beijing Red Cross Emergency center | Beijing | Beijing |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Peking University People's Hospital | Beijing Emergency Center, Beijing Red Cross Emergency Center |
China,
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Cause of the emergency | The chief complaints of the patients were classified into 34 illnesses according to the Medical Priority Dispatch System (MPDS) which total includes 34 diseases. | 10 years | No |
Secondary | The pre-hospital emergency call demand | Total number of pre-hospital emergency calls, reduces the number of missing record, records with no identifiable chief complaint, repeated data, not-emergency care. | 10 years | No |
Secondary | Emergency care-related time | Emergency care-related time included emergency response time (ERT), active response time (ART), and passive response time (PRT). ART was defined as the time from emergency call to ambulance departure time; PRT was from departure time to arrival time at the pre-hospital center; ERT was the time from the emergency call to arrival time. | 10 years | No |