Clinical trial NCT02645877: Trends of the Pre-hospital Emergency Care Spectrum in Beijing From 2005 to 2014: A Retrospective Analysis
Official title: Ten-year Trends in the Pre-hospital Emergency Care Spectrum in Beijing From 2005 to 2014: A Multicenter, Retrospective, Observational Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Emergencies [Disease/Finding]
Keywords: Pre-hospital Care
Diseases Spectrum
Call Demands
Emergency Response Time
Lead sponsor: Peking University People's Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Beijing Emergency Medical Center
name: Beijing Red Cross Emergency Center
First posted: 2016-01-05
Enrollment: 3909746
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: 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.

Brief summary: 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.

Detailed description: 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* All patients treated by pre-hospital care from the Beijing Emergency Medical Center and Beijing Red Cross Emergency Center from January 2005 to December 2014

Exclusion Criteria:

* missing data
* duplicate records
* no identifiable chief cause cases
* not emergency cases

Primary outcomes:
measure: Cause of the emergency
timeFrame: 10 years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The pre-hospital emergency call demand
timeFrame: 10 years
measure: Emergency care-related time
timeFrame: 10 years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Beijing
country: China
facility: Beijing Emergency Center, Beijing, China
state: Beijing
city: Beijing
country: China
facility: Beijing Red Cross Emergency center
state: Beijing
Study officials:
affiliation: Peking University, People's Hospital, Beijing, China
name: Baoguo Jiang, MD, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
References:
citation: 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.