2 hours ? 4 hours ? 7 hours ? A whole night? Do you have the impression that the wait time in the emergency services (ER) is endless? On average we would actually wait less than four hours in the emergency halls, according to the first emergency activity report published by the Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency.
To establish this report, the Regional Commission of Experts Urgences Île-de-France used the information system CERVEAU, data from summaries of emergency visits (RPU) of more than 70% of the SU in the region for the year 2014.
“Age of patients, hospitalization rate, pathologies, sex ratio, severity, emergency procedures, duration of visits, hourly distribution, all these indicators make it possible to construct an objective representation of the daily activity of emergency services and are now available to professionals ”explains Doctor Mathias Wargon, head of the emergency department at Saint-Camille hospital, who coordinated this report.
Key figures from the report
This report allows us to learn that 75% of the passages in the emergency services of Ile-de-France have been analyzed, that is to say 2,899,064 passages.
In eight out of ten cases (80%), coming to an emergency department is the result of the patient’s initiative or the advice of a loved one. Two-thirds of the sick arrive from their homes and mostly go to thehospital on their own. They are less often transported by firefighters or an ambulance.
68.8% of the passages last less than 4 hours and the passage time is 156 minutes (2 hours and 36 minutes).
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