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NCT Number: NCT02645877

Trends of the Pre-hospital Emergency Care Spectrum in Beijing From 2005 to 2014: A Retrospective Analysis

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Emergencies [Disease/Finding] Disease Attributes Emergencies Pathologic Processes Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Beijing Emergency Center, Beijing, China, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China

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About this study

Pre-hospital emergency care is a very important part of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) System, crucial to patients' life support, disability and mortality rate reduction. The level of pre-hospital emergency care reflects the comprehensive ability of the organizational, management and public welfare of a country. Beijing Emergency Center and Beijing Red Cross Emergency Center are in the charge of all the pre-hospital emergency care in Beijing, which respectively subordinate to Beijing government and Chinese Red Cross Society. This study collected the data of 3,909,746 cases from these two pre-hospital care centers from January, 2005 to December, 2014 and retrospective analyzed the pre-hospital emergency call demand and first aid related time. The results of this study can help the government optimize medical resources; strengthen the prevention of related emergency diseases. The changes and trends of pre-hospital care disease spectrum also present the same problems and situation of developing megacities like Beijing. Based on the meticulous work in these 2 centers, this study has collected the most complete pre-hospital emergency care data in China.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

Prehospital care

Procedure

The common cause of pre-hospital care demands were Abdominal Problems, Allergies/Envenomation, Animal Bites, Assault/Sexual, Back Pain, Breathing Problems, Burns/Explosions, Carbon Monoxide/Inhalation/Radiation/Hazardous Material, Cardiac or Respiratory Arrest, Chest Pain, Choking, Convulsions/Seizures, Diabetic Problems, Drowning/Diving/Scuba Accident, Electrocution/Lightning, Eye Problems/Injuries, Falls, Headache, Heart Problems, Heat/Cold Exposure, Hemorrhage/Lacerations, Inaccessible Incident/Entrapments, Overdose/Poisoning, Pregnancy/Childbirth/Miscarriage, Psychiatric/Suicide Attempt, Sick Person, Stabbing/Gunshot/Penetrating Trauma, Stroke, Traffic Injuries, Traumatic Injuries, Unconscious/Fainting, Unknown Problems, Inter-Facility Transfer/Palliative Care, Flu-Like Symptoms, etc.

Primary outcomes

  1. Cause of the emergency

    Time frame: 10 years

    The chief complaints of the patients were classified into 34 illnesses according to the Medical Priority Dispatch System (MPDS) which total includes 34 diseases.

Secondary outcomes

  1. The pre-hospital emergency call demand

    Time frame: 10 years

    Total number of pre-hospital emergency calls, reduces the number of missing record, records with no identifiable chief complaint, repeated data, not-emergency care.

  2. Emergency care-related time

    Time frame: 10 years

    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.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Peking University People's Hospital

Other

Collaborators

  • Beijing Emergency Medical Center
  • Beijing Red Cross Emergency Center

Registry information

Official study title

Ten-year Trends in the Pre-hospital Emergency Care Spectrum in Beijing From 2005 to 2014: A Multicenter, Retrospective, Observational Study

Important dates

Study start
2005
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2014
First posted
Jan 5, 2016
Registry last updated
Jan 5, 2016

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