Publicly funded interfacility ambulance transfers for surgical and obstetrical conditions: A cross sectional analysis in an urban middle-income country setting.

CONCLUSION: Surgical and obstetric conditions account for nearly half of all urban interfacility ambulance transfers. The most common reasons for transfer are basic surgical conditions with public healthcare facilities transferring a greater proportion of patient with surgical conditions than private facilities. Timely access to an initial healthcare facility may not be a reliable surrogate of definitive surgical care given the substantial need for interfacility transfers. PMID: 33156837 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33156837?dopt=Abstract

Source: Pain Physician - November 11, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Truche P, NeMoyer RE, Patiño-Franco S, Herrera-Escobar JP, Torres M, Pino LF, Peck GL Tags: PLoS One Source Type: research