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Table 3 Relationship between conveyance and death within 30 days by Protocol 36 COVID-19 status

From: Epidemiology of emergency ambulance service calls related to COVID-19 in Scotland: a national record linkage study

 

Reason for call stopped

 

Protocol 36 COVID-19 status

N (%)

Median NEWS*

IQR NEWS

Death within 3 days (%)

Death within 30 days (%)

Refused (%)

Referred

(%)

Advice (%)

See and treat (%)

Other (%)

Not conveyed

Protocol 36 COVID-19 negative

60,474 (29.2)

1

3

3,980 (6.6%)

5,567

(9.2)

11,973 (19.8)

8,345

(13.8)

18,263(30.2)

2,479

(4.1)

19,412(32.1)

Protocol 36 COVID-19 positive

2,947 (40.3)

1

3

47

(1.6)

127

(4.3)

475

(16.1)

586

(19.9)

1,188

(40.3)

206

(7.0)

492

(16.7)

Conveyed

Protocol 36 COVID-19 negative

146,303 (70.8)

2

4

3,179

(2.2)

9,658

(6.6)

     

Protocol 36 COVID-19 positive

4,358

(59.7)

3

5

131

(3.0)

384

(8.8)

     
  1. *National Early Warning Score