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Table 2 Comparison of EMCC false negative and true positive stroke patients

From: Telephone triage and dispatch of ambulances to patients with suspected and verified acute stroke - a descriptive study

 

EMCC true positive

n = 201

EMCC false negative

n = 60

p =

Age

78.1 (69–87)

79.5 (63–87)

0.542

Female

99 (49)

29 (48)

0.90

Acute ischemic Stroke (AIS)

138 (69)

38 (63)

0.44

Intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH)

25 (12)

15 (25)

0.017

Transient ischemic attack (TIA)

38 (19)

7 (12)

0.19

EMCC acute priority

199 (99)

32 (53)

0.001

Time interval to dispatch

01:29 (01:01–02:19)

00:55 (00:21–03:55)

0.001

Time interval to destination

06:01 (04:45 − 08:03)

07:39 (06:22 − 12:09)

< 0.001

Time interval on scene

23:40 (18:02–29:29)

29:28 (20:25–41:42)

0.001

Time interval from scene to hospital/GP

10:01 (06:16 − 14:46)

10:09 (06:49 − 15:51)

0.492

Total prehospital delay

43:47 (35:59 − 53:25)

54:38 (40:08–69:48)

< 0.001

  1. Age is presented as median with 25- and 75 percentiles. Sex, stroke diagnoses and priority are presented in numbers and (%). All time intervals are presented as median minutes and seconds with 25- and 75 percentiles. Groups were compared using Kruskal-Wallis Test. P-values of < 0.05 were considered statistically significant