Trends of the Pre-hospital Emergency Care Spectrum in Beijing From 2005 to 2014: A Retrospective Analysis
Trends of the Pre-hospital Emergency Care Spectrum in Beijing From 2005 to 2014: A Retrospective Analysis
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.
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.
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