Incidence and Mortality in Emergency Patients Transported by Emergency-Medical-Service Personnel During the First Surge COVID-19 Pandemic in Osaka Prefecture, Japan; A Population-Based Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuke Katayama ◽  
Kenta Tanaka ◽  
Tetsuhisa Kitamura ◽  
Taro Takeuchi ◽  
shota nakao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Medical Service ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Emergency Medical Service Personnel ◽  
Population Based Study ◽  
Service Personnel ◽  
Emergency Patients ◽  
Emergency Medical ◽  
Incidence And Mortality ◽  
Osaka Prefecture

scholarly journals Incidence and Mortality of Emergency Patients Transported by Emergency Medical Service Personnel during the Novel Corona Virus Pandemic in Osaka Prefecture, Japan: A Population-Based Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 5662
Author(s):  
Yusuke Katayama ◽  
Kenta Tanaka ◽  
Tetsuhisa Kitamura ◽  
Taro Takeuchi ◽  
Shota Nakao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Medical Service ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Emergency Medical Service Personnel ◽  
Emergency Patients ◽  
Emergency Medical ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Incidence And Mortality ◽  
Osaka Prefecture ◽  
The Impact

Although the COVID-19 pandemic affects the emergency medical service (EMS) system, little is known about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prognosis of emergency patients. This study aimed to reveal the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the EMS system and patient outcomes. We included patients transported by ambulance who were registered in a population-based registry of patients transported by ambulance. The endpoints of this study were the incident number of patients transported by ambulance each month and the number of deaths among these patients admitted to hospital each month. The incidence rate ratio (IRR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) using a Poisson regression model with the year 2019 as the reference were calculated. A total of 500,194 patients were transported in 2019, whereas 443,321 patients were transported in 2020, indicating a significant decrease in the number of emergency patients transported by ambulance (IRR: 0.89, 95% CI: 0.88–0.89). The number of deaths of emergency patients admitted to hospital was 11,931 in 2019 and remained unchanged at 11,963 in 2020 (IRR: 1.00, 95% CI: 0.98–1.03). The incidence of emergency patients transported by ambulance decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but the mortality of emergency patients admitted to hospital did not change in this study.

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