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Table 1 Baseline characteristics

From: Prehospital triage of patients diagnosed with perforated peptic ulcer or peptic ulcer bleeding: an observational study of patients calling 1-1-2

Variable

PPU/PUB

(n = 263)

Respiratory Failure

(n = 2589)

Stroke

(n = 1688)

Trauma

(n = 1219)

Cardiac Chest Pain

(n = 1804)

Cardiac Arrest

(n = 1095)

Total

(n = 8658)

Age, years (95% CI)

69.4 (67.6;71.2)

63.2 (62.3;64.1)

70.1 (69.4;70.8)

39.9 (38.7;41.1)

69.2 (68.5;69.8)

68.9 (68.0;69.0)

63.4 (63.0;63.9)

Sex, % (95% CI)

 Male

58.9 (53.0;64.9)

55.2 (53.4;57.2)

55.6 (53.3;58.0)

61.6 (58.8;64.3)

66.6 (64.4;68.8)

65.6 (62.8;68.4)

60.0 (59.0;61.0)

Emergency callsa, % (95% CI)

 1

95.1 (92.4;97.7)

89.5 (88.3;90.6)

95.6 (94.6;96.6)

98.5 (97.8;99.2)

89.9 (88.5;91.3)

98.1 (97.3;98.9)

93.3 (92.8;93.8)

 2

4.9 (2.3;7.6)

7.4 (6.4;8.4)

4.0 (3.1;5.0)

1.3 (0.7;2.0)

8.3 (7.0;9.5)

1.7 (1.0;2.5)

5.3 (4.8;5.7)

 3

–

1.7 (1.2;2.2)

0.3 (0.0;0.6)

0.1 (0.0;0.2)

1.2 (0.7;1.7)

0.2 (0.0;0.4)

0.8 (0.6;1.0)

 4+

–

1.5 (1.0;1.9)

0.1 (0.0;0.2)

0.1 (0.0;0.2)

0.7 (0.3;1.1)

–

0.6 (0.4;0.8)

CCI score, % (95% CI)

 0

0.8 (0.0;1.8)

15.7 (14.3;17.1)

–

77.1 (74.8;79.5)

9.2 (7.9;10.5)

31.5 (28.8;34.3)

21.5 (20.6;22.3)

 1

41.1 (35.1;47.0)

25.7 (24.0;27.4)

51.1 (48.8;53.5)

10.3 (8.5;12.0)

29.4 (27.3;31.5)

20.9 (18.5;23.3)

29.1 (28.2;30.1)

 2

16.7 (11.2;21.3)

15.2 (13.8;16.6)

14.6 (12.9;16.3)

5.2 (3.9;6.4)

18.5 (16.7;20.3)

15.4 (13.3;17.6)

14.4 (13.7;15.2)

 3+

41.4 (35.5;47.4)

43.4 (41.5;45.3)

34.2 (32.0;36.5)

7.4 (5.9;8.9)

43.0 (40.7;45.2)

32.1 (29.4;34.9)

35.0 (34.0;36.0)

Time of 1–1-2 call, % (95% CI)

 00:00–05:59

18.3 (13.6;22.9)

21.7 (20.1;23.3)

6.9 (5.7;8.1)

9.7 (8.0;11.3)

18.0 (16.2;19.7)

12.3 (10.4;14.3)

15.0 (14.3;15.8)

 06:00–11:59

30.4 (24.8;36.0)

32.1 (30.3;33.9)

36.0 (33.7;38.3)

27.2 (24.7;29.7)

29.8 (27.7;31.9)

37.5 (34.7;40.4)

32.3 (31.4;33.3)

 12:00–17.59

31.9 (26.3;37.6)

22.2 (20.6;23.8)

35.2 (32.9;37.5)

40.0 (37.3;42.8)

28.3 (26.2;30.4)

28.8 (26.1;31.5)

29.6 (28.7;30.6)

 18:00–23:59

19.4 (14.6;24.2)

24.0 (22.4;25.7)

21.9 (19.9;23.9)

23.0 (20.6;25.3)

24.0 (22.0;26.0)

21.4 (18.9;23.8)

23.0 (22.1;23.9)

  1. Abbreviations: PPU perforated peptic ulcer, PUB peptic ulcer bleeding, n number of patients, CI confidence interval, CCI Charlson Comorbidity Index
  2. aNumber of emergency calls per patient