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Table 2 Stratification of wait time (Twait) for TT and MET based on transportation time and distance from pick-up spot to ED

From: Geographic information system data from ambulances applied in the emergency department: effects on patient reception

 

Control period

Intervention period

  
 

N

n Missing (%)

N

n Missing (%)

N total

P a

Patients included

157

123 (43 %)

230

53 (19 %)

387

 

Distance, km [median (iqr)]

 

16 (3.8–25.7)

 

14.2 (4.1–24.9)

  

Twait stratified by transportation time

 

Median (iqr) [min]

 

Median (iqr) [min]

  

>0 < 5 min

45

5 (3–8)

66

4 (2–6)

111

0.33

≥5 < 20 min

49

4 (2–6)

95

5 (2–6)

144

0.57

≥20 min

88

5 (2.5–7)

113

4 (2–7)

201

0.14

Twait stratified by distance

      

>0 < 5 km

45

4 (2–6)

66

4 (2–6)

111

0.90

≥5 < 19 km

47

5 (2–7)

80

4 (2–6.5)

127

0.88

≥20 km

66

5 (3–9)

85

4 (2–6)

151

0.03

  1. TT trauma team, MET medical emergency team, ED emergency department, N number of patients, iqr inter quartile range; n Missing number of patients with missing data on transportation distance and transportation time, Distance distance from patient’s pick-up spot to ED
  2. aMann Whitney