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Table 3 Visit Geographya

From: First Nations emergency care in Alberta: descriptive results of a retrospective cohort study

Variable

FN

n = 1,099,424

Non-FN

n = 10,586,863

Drive time from patient postal code to nearest Emergency Department (minutes)

 Mean (SD)

17.8

(25.2)

9.9

(9.6)

 Median [IQR]

9.0

[3, 23]

7.0

[3, 13]

 Missing

44,378

 

425,628

 

Drive distance from patient postal code to Emergency Department (km)

 Mean (SD)

19.0

(32.1)

7.6

(11.1)

 Median [IQR]

6.0

[1, 24]

4.0

[2, 8]

 Missing

44,378

 

425,628

 

Urban / Rural Continuum (Patient Address) n %

 Metro (population > 500,000)

178,715

16.3

3,673,570

34.7

 Moderate Metro Influence (immediately surrounding Metro Centres)

49,293

4.5

1,338,763

12.6

 Urban (Population > 25,000 but less than > 500,000)

66,115

6.0

1,064,243

10.1

 Moderate Urban Influence (surrounding urban centres)

5717

0.5

198,378

1.9

 Rural Centre Area (> 10,000 to less than < 25,000)

150,974

13.7

538,840

5.1

 Rural (population less than 10,000 and up to 200 km from a Metro or Urban Centre)

377,692

34.4

2,888,163

27.3

 Rural Remote (>  200 km from a Metro or Urban Centre)

234,735

21.4

471,716

4.5

 Missing

36,183

3.3

413,190

3.9

Patient Address Area - AHS Zone n %

 North

509,990

46.4

2,195,754

20.7

 Edmonton

174,515

15.9

2,455,812

23.2

 Central

156,924

14.3

1,639,139

15.5

 Calgary

143,377

13

3,106,590

29.3

 South

108,277

9.8

862,415

8.1

 Missing

6341

0.6

327,153

3.1

Facility Type n %

 Tertiary Referral

124,221

11.3

1,598,194

15.1

 Regional Referral

183,055

16.7

3,152,477

29.8

 Community Hospital providing 5 services with < 5000 Inpatient Discharges per year

357,147

32.5

2,132,601

20.1

 Community Hospital providing 3 to 4 services – or providing Emergency and Inpatient with > 600 emergency inpatient discharges per year.

226,897

20.6

1,437,449

13.6

 Community Hospital providing Emergency and Inpatient Services with < 600 inpatient discharges per year.

131,703

12.0

804,591

7.6

 Community Ambulatory Moderate > = 20,000 visits per year

21,337

1.9

356,555

3.4

 Community Ambulatory < 20,000 visits per year

19,102

1.7

158,719

1.5

 Urgent Care Centre

35,962

3.3

946,277

8.9

  1. FN First Nations, non-FN non-First Nations, ED Emergency Department, SD standard deviation, IQR interquartile range, AHS Alberta Health Services
  2. aAll difference between FN and non-FN are significant at the p = < 0.001 level