Socioeconomic Disparities in Prehospital Emergency Care in a Danish Tax-Financed Healthcare System: Nationwide Cohort Study.

Juliane FrydenlundJulie MackenhauerErika Frischknecht ChristensenHelle Collatz ChristensenUlla VæggemoseJacob SteinmetzSøren Paaske Johnsen

Published in: Clinical epidemiology (2022)

Patients with low SES were significantly more likely to contact the hospital or EMS again after their first call or after treatment and release at scene compared with patients with high SES. This indicates that callers with low SES did not receive the appropriate help.

Keyphrases

healthcare
emergency medical
emergency department
public health
cardiac arrest
palliative care
quality improvement
cross sectional
trauma patients
acute care