2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Basic problems concerning responding demand of emergency medical needs
| Project/Area Number |
25670771
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Emergency medicine
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| Research Institution | Kinki University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
KUBOTA Yoshie 近畿大学, 医学部, 助手 (50447942)
HASEGAWA Kohei ハーバード大学
HAYAHIDA Sumito 大阪市消防局
OKA Takeo 大阪市消防局
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 救急 / 応需 / 救急搬送記録 / 搬送時間 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We investigated the basic problem concerning the demand for emergency medical services using data from Osaka Municipal Fire Department. We particularly focused on drug overdose patients because drug overdose is an important issue in emergency medicine. The number of overdose patients was 1136 in 1998. It increased annually and reached 1985 in 2009 (p<0.0001 for trend). The duration from emergency call to the arrival at the hospital for emergency patients, particularly for drug overdose patients increased markedly in recent years. Our findings show an increased burden on the EMS system due to increase in the overdose cases. However recently we found that the number of overdose patients decreased. Although the cause of this trend has not been determined yet, the recent campaign to doctors to avoid multiple prescription of psychoactive drug might be effective.
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| Free Research Field |
救急医学
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