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Published in final edited form as: Prehosp Emerg Care. 2009;13(2):173–178. doi: 10.1080/10903120802706211

Table 2.

Proportion of Unique Older Adults Accessing EMS Across Patient Characteristics

	Proportion of Unique EMS Patients During Period One Adjusted^*	Proportion of Unique EMS Patients During Period Two
	% unique patients 95% CI(Number of unique patients/Number of total patients)	% unique patients 95% CI(Number of unique patients/Number of total patients)
All EMS Patients	74% 70–79% (290/394)	71% 64–74% (274/386)
Patients 65–80 years old	81% 75–86% (161/198)	74% 66–81% (105/141)
Patients >80 years old	68% 61–75% (134/196)	69% 63–75% (169/245)
Female Patients	77% 71–82% (165/215)	74% 68–80% (156/210)
Male Patients	73% 65–79% (130/179)	67% 60–74% (118/176)

Adjusted: Nursing Home Patients Excluded