Table 5 Patient’s characteristics across the four age categories
Age category | Infant | Toddler | School age | Adolescent | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Family transport group (n = 278) | EMS transport group (n = 606) | p-values | Family transport group (n = 352) | EMS transport group (n = 878) | p-values | Family transport group (n = 188) | EMS transport group (n = 468) | p-values | Family transport group (n = 53) | EMS transport group (n = 140) | p-values | |
PIM 2 (IQR) | 1.3 (0.8–2.7) | 1.9 (1.1–6.8) | < 0.01* | 1.0 (0.7–2.8) | 1.4 (1.0–4.9) | < 0.01* | 1.0 (0.8–1.6) | 1.2 (0.9–4.3) | < 0.01* | 0.9 (0.7–1.5) | 1.1 (0.9–4.7) | < 0.01* |
Chronic conditions (%) | 119 (42.8) | 149 (24.6) | < 0.01* | 252 (71.6) | 401 (45.7) | < 0.01* | 139 (73.9) | 211 (45.1) | < 0.01* | 41 (77.4) | 84 (60.0) | 0.028 |
Distance (km) (IQR) | 5.2 (2.7–8.2) | 5.5 (0.5–10) | < 0.01* | 5.3 (3.3–9.6) | 9.6 (4.9–16.8) | < 0.01* | 5.0 (3.0–8.7) | 9.7 (4.6–20) | < 0.01* | 9.4 (4.5–16.9) | 9.5 (4.5–16.9) | 0.295 |
Mortality (%) | 4 (1.4) | 30 (5.5) | 0.013 | 5 (1.4) | 19 (2.2) | 0.498 | 0 | 24 (5.1) | < 0.01* | 0 | 7 (5.0) | 0.193 |