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. 2019 Oct 12;27(1):147–153. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocz176

Table 2.

Patient demographics

Age, y 53.0 (52.6-53.3)
Male 6724 (47.9)
Urgency to scene
 Priority 1 (time sensitive or life-threatening event) 1976 (14)
 Priority 2 (non–life-threatening event) 1884 (13.4)
 Priority 3 (nonacute injury) 1097 (7.8)
 Priority 4 (hold until verified need by another responding agency such as police or fire) 30 (0.2)
 Priority not documented 9040 (64.4)
Urgency from scene
 Priority 1 805 (5.7)
 Priority 2 3770 (26.8)
 Priority 3 3589 (25.8)
 Priority not documented 5863 (41.7)
Skillset
 Advanced life support 1535 (10.9)
 Basic life support 12 447 (88.7)
 Unknown 5 (0)
Languages
 English 11 306 (84.7)
 Spanish 782 (5.8)
 Russian 377 (2.8)
 Cape Verdean 337 (2.5)
 Haitian Creole 72 (0.5)
 Cantonese 62 (0.4)
 Portuguese 32 (0.2)
 Mandarin 32 (0.2)
 American Sign Language 20 (0.1)
 Polish 14 (0.1)
 Greek 14 (0.1)
 Vietnamese 13 (0.1)
 Italian 12 (0.1)
 Hebrew 11 (0.1)
 Persian 10 (0.1)
 Other 73 (0.5)

Values are mean (95% confidence interval) or n (%).