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| Name | Class |
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| Beijing Emergency Medical Center | OTHER |
| Beijing Red Cross Emergency Center | UNKNOWN |
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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.
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.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Prehospital care | All pre-hospital service data were collected from January 2005 to December 2014 from the Beijing Emergency Center and Beijing Red Cross Emergency Center, which oversee all pre-hospital care in Beijing. The major illnesses were classified into 34 disease spectrum categories according to the Medical Priority Dispatch System (MPDS) which total includes 34 diseases. Data on pre-hospital emergency demand and first aid-related time intervals were analyzed to determine trends over the period. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| 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. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| 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 |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| 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 |
| Emergency care-related time |
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All pre-hospital service data from the Beijing Emergency Medical Center and Beijing Red Cross Emergency Center were collected from January 2005 to December 2014.
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Baoguo Jiang, MD, PhD | Peking University, People's Hospital, Beijing, China | Study Chair |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Beijing Emergency Center, Beijing, China | Beijing | Beijing Municipality | China | |||
| Beijing Red Cross Emergency center |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 25943819 | Background | Wang T, Yin X, Zhang P, Kou Y, Jiang B. Road traffic injury and rescue system in China. Lancet. 2015 Apr 25;385(9978):1622. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60794-2. No abstract available. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D004630 | Emergencies |
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| D020969 | Disease Attributes |
| D010335 | Pathologic Processes |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
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| D004632 | Emergency Medical Services |
| ID | Term |
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| D006296 | Health Services |
| D005159 | Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services |
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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 |
| Beijing |
| Beijing Municipality |
| China |