Table 2.

Hospital outcomes and procedures among emergency medical services patients with respiratory distress

Variable	All Hospitalized Patients (N=9,964)
Outcomes
Hospital mortality	948 (10)
Received intensive care	3,094 (31)
Duration of intensive care, days, median     (IQR)	2 (1–4)
Length of hospital stay, days, median (IQR)	4 (2–6)
New discharge to skilled nursing facility*	1,163 (13)
Procedures
Invasive mechanical ventilation	1,486 (15)
Tracheostomy	22 (<1)
Bronchoscopy	145 (1)
Percutaneous coronary intervention	71 (<1)

^*New placement in a skilled nursing facility was defined as discharge to a skilled nursing facility for patients’ whose EMS encounter for respiratory distress did not originate at a skilled nursing facility. Denominator for this outcome is patients surviving hospitalization, n=9,016.

Data reported as n (%) unless otherwise noted.