Table 1.

Demographic information on the three included emergency medical service organizations

	Urban organization	Mixed organization	Rural organization
Area	900 km2	6464 km2	28,030 km2
Population	660,000	302,441	284,531
Population/km2	733	47	10
EMS missions/year	82,419	39,517	37,149
Mission time (minutes) (median)	47	62	78
Proportion of RN	88%	96%	89%

The data are based on the organizations’ reports from 2016

EMS emergency medical service, RN registered nurse