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Table 4 RTC patient factors associated with ambulance arrival, AaBET Hospital, Addis Ababa

From: Ambulance use is not associated with patient acuity after road traffic collisions: a cross-sectional study from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Characteristic

Arrival by ambulance

Adjusted odds of ambulance use

Yes (n = 366)

No (n = 254)

N (%) a

N (%) a

aOR (95%CI)

Patient sex

 Female

139 (38.0)

74 (29.1)

1.0 (ref)

 Male

227 (62.0)

180 (70.9)

0.63 (0.43, 0.91)

Patient age

 < 13

19 (5.3)

12 (4.8)

0.77 (0.32,1.86)

 13–24

115 (31.9)

83 (33.3)

1.21 (0.75, 1.95)

 25–40

145 (40.2)

93 (37.3)

1.15 (0.73, 1.82)

 > 40

82 (22.7)

61 (24.5)

1.0 (ref)

Patient origin

 Addis Ababa

121 (33.4)

119 (46.9)

0.78 (0.53, 1.13)

 Outside Addis

241 (66.6)

135 (53.1)

1.0 (ref)

Date of Arrival

 Weekday

257 (72.6)

177 (70.8)

1.05 (0.71, 1.55)

 Weekend

97 (27.4)

73 (29.2)

1.0 (ref)

Triage Acuityb,c

 Low Acuity

145 (41.1)

132 (52.2)

1.0 (ref)

 Moderate Acuity

155 (43.9)

97 (38.3)

1.34 (0.92, 1.95)

 High Acuity

53 (15.0)

24 (9.5)

1.56 (0.86, 2.84)

Referral status/source

 Referred from government hospital

191 (54.6)

55 (23.9)

4.23 (2.63, 6.78)

 Referred from health center

68 (19.4)

51 (22.2)

1.61 (0.97, 2.69)

 Referred from private institution

7 (2.0)

9 (3.9)

0.88 (0.29, 2.69)

 Self-Referral/Scene

84 (24.0)

115 (50.0)

1.0 (ref)

  1. aPercent of non-missing data reported
  2. bSouth Africa Triage Scale acuity designations
  3. cHigh acuity includes very urgent, emergent, and dead on arrival. Dead on arrival grouped within very urgent or emergent due to presumed scene/pre-hospital acuity