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EMS response time and patient outcomes in high-acuity emergency responses: a Danish matched cohort study
EMS response time and patient outcomes in high-acuity emergency responses: a Danish matched cohort study
International Journal of Emergency Medicine · Added 20 October 2026
Danish matched cohort of 171,708 highest-priority (A-level) responses in Region Zealand tested whether EMS response times affect outcomes — mortality did not rise with longer response times, and the longest-quartile group had lower 30-day (OR 0.87) and 2-day (OR 0.82) mortality than the shortest quartiles.
Why it matters in Australia (Medium relevance). Response-time policy is core business for every Australian service, but this is a Danish single-region registry with matching that can't remove case-mix confounding — and the counterintuitive direction screams residual confounding, so treat it as debate fuel, not a target change.
Learning goal
Understand how response time intervals relate to patient outcomes in high-acuity cases to inform my triage and dispatch judgement.
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