Helicopter Ambulance Transport to the Emergency Department: Demographic and Clinical Factors Impacting Outcomes in a Turkish Medical Center

Habibe Selmin Özensoy; Selahattin Gürü

doi:10.12659/MSM.941464

15 September 2023: Clinical Research

Helicopter Ambulance Transport to the Emergency Department: Demographic and Clinical Factors Impacting Outcomes in a Turkish Medical Center

Habibe Selmin Özensoy ^ABCDEFG* , Selahattin Gürü ^ABCDEFG

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.941464

Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e941464

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Table 2 Survival and mortality rates of patients transferred from another hospital by HAs to a single center according to sex, age, and distance transferred by HAs at 1 month after transfer.

	Survival	Mortality	P

Male	91 (83.5)	18 (16.5)	0.474^a
Female	41 (78.8)	11 (21.2)
	59.8±20.6	66.3±28.2	^a
^*
Districts in the same province	120 (83.3)	24 (16.7)	0.195^b
Other provinces/abroad	12 (70.6)	5 (29.4)
	165.3±171.4	175.3±157.6	0.984^b
^* 1 patient transferred from abroad; ^a Fisher exact test; ^b Mann-Whitney U test; n – number of cases; HAs – helicopter ambulances; km – kilometers.

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