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It looks like the study doesn’t have data that would enable them to determine that. The marathon event presents a known day where there is disruption, which the
by erentz 7y ago
It looks like the study doesn’t have data that would enable them to determine that. The marathon event presents a known day where there is disruption, which they can see in ambulance transport times. They then can see in Medicare data patient outcomes based on days. Looks like they’d need much more granular data on admission times, etc from the Medicare data set which probably is not possible.
That said you can probably infer from everything we know that if ambulance transport times are longer during rush hour then patient outcomes are also worse.
- JshWright 7y agoIn theory that data exists. The NEMSIS data set includes transport timestamps and locations (allowing you to determine some sort of "rush hour impact score"), and enough identifying information follow up with the pt's outcome. There's no unified dataset linking the two though, so it would be a fair bit of work. https://nemsis.org/media/nemsis_v3/release-3.5.0/DataDictionary/PDFHTML/EMSDEMSTATE/NEMSISDataDictionary.pdf https://nemsis.org/media/nemsis_v3/release-3.5.0/DataDiction...