The difficult medical emergency call: A register-based study of predictors and outcomes

Pre-hospital emergency care requires proper categorization of emergency calls and assessment of emergency priority levels by the medical dispatchers. We investigated predictors for emergency call categorization as “unclear problem” in contrast to “symptom-specific” categories and the effect of categorization on mortality. Register-based study in a 2-year period based on emergency call data from the emergency medical dispatch center in Copenhagen...