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Social Inequalities in Emergency Call and Emergency Response Patterns

NCT02649036 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 80829

Last updated 2016-08-04

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Summary

Background:

Inequality in access to healthcare is a challenge internationally. Despite that medical emergency calls can be considered as access point to pre-hospital emergency care and hospital admission in emergency situations, no data on inequality in access to healthcare through emergency calls is reported in the international literature.

Study aims:

The aim of this study is two-fold:

1. to evaluate the association between socio-economic characteristics of citizens and first-time emergency call in the Capital Region of Denmark
2. to evaluate the association between socio-economic characteristics of citizens with an emergency call and the priority level of the response provided by the emergency medical dispatch center in the Capital Region of Denmark.

Method: Observational register based study of adult citizens in the Capital Region of Denmark. Educational level, household income and employment are used as socioeconomic indicators. The unique civil registration number will be used to link data from the Emergency Medical Dispatch Center with data from the Civil Registration System, Danish registers on personal labor market affiliation, the Danish Populations Education Register, the Danish Income Statistics Registry and the national patient registry. Logistic regression models will be used for the association between socio economic indicators and first time emergency calls and the association between socioeconomic indicators and the priority level of the response provided.

Conditions

  • Medical Emergency Calls

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Danish National Institute of Public Health

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Emergency Medical Services, Capital Region, Denmark

    lead OTHER_GOV

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-12-31
Primary Completion
2016-07-31
Completion
2016-07-31

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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