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Table 3 Demographic and professional characteristics of the 1154 employees in the study

From: Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the hospital survey on patient safety culture in a prehospital environment

Characteristics

N (%)

Prehospital domain

 GEMS

1045 (90.6)

 HEMS

109 (9.4)

Professional group

 EMT

544 (47.1)

 Paramedic

260 (22.5)

 Nurse EMT

146 (12.7)

 Anesthesiologist

56 (4.9)

 Nurse

40 (3.7)

 HCM

31 (2.7)

 Pilot

25 (2.2)

 EMT apprentice

24 (2.1)

 Other healthcare

22 (1.9)

 Administrative

6 (0.5)

Regional health trust

 North

212 (18.4)

 Middle

225 (19.5)

 West

280 (24.3)

 South-East

436 (37.8)

 Other

1 (0.1)

Prehospital seniority

 5 years or less

221 (19.2)

 6 to 10 years

285 (24.7)

 11 to 15 years

230 (19.9)

 16 to 20 years

207 (17.9)

 21 years or more

211 (18.3)

  1. Notes: EMT emergency medical technician. ‘Nurse EMT’ represents nurses with authorization as an EMT. ‘Nurse’ represents nurses without authorization as an EMT. GEMS ground emergency medical services, HEMS helicopter emergency medical services, HCM HEMS crew member