Dead on arrival in a low-income country: results from a multicenter study in Pakistan

BMC Emergency Medicine

Table 3 Ambulance use in dead on arrival patients in seven emergency departments in Pakistan (November 2010 to March 2011)

	Ambulance used		Ambulance not used		P	Odds ratio	95% Confidence Interval
	N	%	n	%
Age (in years)					0.04
0 to 9	4	5.7	39	5.4		0.47	0.13-1.76
10 to 19	4	5.7	72	9.9		0.20	0.05-0.72
20 to 29	28	40.0	210	28.9		0.45	0.18-1.13
30 to 39	7	10.0	106	14.6		0.28	0.09-0.84
40 to 49	5	7.1	111	15.3		0.18	0.05-0.61
50 to 59	8	11.4	108	14.9		0.29	0.09-0.88
50 to 69	5	7.1	45	6.2		0.63	0.18-2.16
70+	9	12.9	36	5.0		1
Gender					0.001
- Male	57	11.3	447	88.7		2.72	1.40-5.28
- Female	13	4.3	289	95.7		1
Type of hospital					0.08
- Public	47	65.3	552	74.7		1
- Private	25	34.7	187	25.3		2.74	1.50-5.01
Injury					0.004
- No	44	66.7	575	81.4		1
- Yes	22	33.3	131	18.6		1.89	1.05-3.38

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