This study consists of time consuming of arrival and emergency treatment of the 495 patients, who were admitted to the emergency rooms of 3 university hospitals in Seoul from July 6, 1992 to July 29, 1992.
These results were obtained by investigating and analysing the questionaires through the patients, or/and their accompanist by the emergency room nurses.
1. Distribution of time consuming.
1) Consumed time from development of the symptom to visiting emergency room was 31.5 hours.
2) Male patients wisited much earlier than female patients. (statistically significant)
3) The patients of under the age of 6 visited earlier than any other age group. (Nearly 30% of them came within 60 minutes. (Statistically significant)
4) The patients visted most early when a symptom developed on road. (42.9% : significant)
5) A taxi was the most frequently used transportation. (45.9%) In case of visiting by walking, patients arrived within 60 minutes (48.4% : significant)
6) Fourty three % of injured patients arrived within 60 minutes and they visited much earlier than diseased patients.
7) Orthopedic patients visited within 60 minutes, which was earlier than other department patients and occupied 45.3%. (significant)
8) Non-first-aided patients at home visited earlier than first aided ones at home. (nonsignificant)
2. Time interval from arrival to initial emergency care.
1) seventy % of the patients were initially cared within 30 minutes.
2) Time to initial care according to the symptoms and signs was not statistically significant.
3) Fifty nine % of OB/GYN patients were cared within 10 minutes and earlier than other department patients, however, statistcally nonsignificant.
3. Time interval from initial care to completion.
1) Emergency care was completed within 180 minutes in sixty three % of the patients.
2) Although, a distribution of the time to completion of emergency care was statistically nonsignificant, diseased patients were completed a little bit earlier than injured patients.
3) Pediatric patients were completed earlier than any department patients and 37.3% of them were completed within 60 minutes.
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