Erika Fernanda Dos Santos Bezerra Ludwig, Maria do Carmo Fernandez Lourenço Haddad, Mariana Ângela Rossaneis Moreira, Aroldo Gavioli, Lilia de Souza Nogueira, Eleine Aparecida Penha Martins
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Abstract
Objective: To analyze the mortality of users attended by a Mobile Emergency Care Service located in Paraná.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional analytical study based on service reports from 2019 and 2020. The Mobile Emergency Care Service covered 21 municipalities, divided into hubs A and B. The dependent variables defined were death and time of care. Survival functions were calculated using the Kaplan-Meier estimator and the log-rank test; hazard ratio (HR) for death, by Cox regression with 95% confidence interval (95%CI).
Results: The study evaluated 13,326 instances of care provided. Of these, 246 resulted in death. The risk of death was higher in time-sensitive calls (HR 0.17; 95%CI 0.008; 0.37), in 2020 (HR 2.09; 95%CI 1.39; 3.16), attended by advanced support (HR 21.51; 95%CI 12.61; 36.70) and in Hub B (HR 4.26; 95%CI 2.53; 7.17).
Conclusion: Mortality was higher in cases that had a long wait for time-sensitive calls, occurred in less populated regions, and were dealt with by advanced support in 2020.