Increasing emergency number utilisation is not driven by low-acuity calls: an observational study of 1.5 million emergency calls (2018–2021) from Berlin

Background The Emergency Medical Service (EMS) in Germany is increasingly challenged by strongly rising demand. Speculations about a greater utilisation for minor cases have led to intensive media coverage, but empirical evidence is lacking. We investigated the development of low-acuity calls from 2...

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Published in:BMC medicine 2023-05, Vol.21 (1), p.184-14, Article 184
Main Authors: Herr, David, Bhatia, Sangeeta, Breuer, Florian, Poloczek, Stefan, Pommerenke, Christopher, Dahmen, Janosch
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acuity
Adolescent
Adult
Age
Ambulance
Ambulatory care
Berlin - epidemiology
Biomedicine
Child
Child, Preschool
Codes
Datasets
Emergencies
Emergency calls
Emergency medical care
Emergency Medical Service
Emergency Medical Services
Emergency reporting systems (Telephone)
Emergency Service, Hospital
Empirical analysis
Female
Females
Fires
Germany - epidemiology
Health insurance
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Low-acuity
Males
Medical care
Medical practices
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Methods
Missing data
Observational studies
Opening hours
Patients
Population density
Regions
Regression models
Research Article
Resource allocation
Retrospective Studies
Social interactions
Sociodemographics
Statistical analysis
Utilization
Variables
Young Adult
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