The key results of the research project are: Nationwide, around 13.9 million deployments, with a total of 16.4 million deployment journeys, were carried out every year by the public emergency services in 2016/17. The deployment rate is around 169 deployments per 1,000 inhabitants per year. 52.5% of the deployment volume is classified as an emergency by the control centre staff, with 47.5% relating to the patient transportation category. More than two-fifths of all emergency deployments involve an emergency doctor (emergency doctor deployment). Around one quarter of road traffic accident emergencies (24.8%) are handled by an emergency doctor. Approximately 2.0% of emergency deployments involve a road traffic accident, which corresponds to around 145,000 deployments nationwide. The breakdown of other emergency deployments with and without the involvement of an emergency doctor is as follows: Other emergency 56%, internal medical emergency 29%, other accident (e.g. accident in the home or at school, sports accident) 12% and occupational accident less than 1%. Around three out of five deployment trips are made using special rights during the journey. This corresponds to 9.67 million deployment trips using special rights during the journey to the scene of the emergency per year nationwide. In 2016/17, the volume of deployments that can be traced back to false alarms in Germany was less than 5.4% of the total. This corresponds to around 884,000 trips due to false alarms per year. In cases involving deployments using special rights during the journey to the scene of the emergency, the average assistance period is 9.0 minutes, based on the first rescue facility to arrive at the scene of the emergency, with 95%of emergencies having a rescue facility turn up within 17.7 minutes. The results of a feasibility study for the joint evaluation of data from GIDAS (German In- Depth Accident Study) and data from the performance analysis of road traffic accidents show, on the one hand, that it is possible to identify identical accident events/victims from both data sets and, on the other hand, that the determination of the injury severity of the road traffic accident victims is comparable between the two recording methods. (Author/publisher)
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