Success of the operation emergency medical service system of Ubon Ratchathani Province

Abstract

The objective of this study was to study the operation and the success of the emergency medical service system of Ubon Ratchathani Province. The samples of this study were 125 emergency operation units in Ubon Ratchathani Province. The reliability was 95% and the error was 0.05. Since the logistic regression analysis was used in the study, the sample size of more than 30 times of the independent variable was required. Stratified simple random sampling method was used to select the samples. The stratification was defined by the levels of the emergency operation units. The instrument used in this study was the recording form used to collect the data on the operation and the success of the emergency medical service system of Ubon Ratchathani Province in 3 aspects, including the duration of the operation, the quality of care for emergency cases and the results of the primary care. The reliability was 0.85. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The results revealed that most of emergency operation units achieved 97.6 percent of the operation of the emergency medical service system. The results of each aspect were as follows. (1) The success of the duration of the operation was 91.2 percent. (2) The success of the quality of care for emergency cases was 78.4 percent. (3) The success of the results of the primary care was 95.2 percent. The development of the emergency medical service system of Ubon Ratchathani Province was under the cooperation of Ubon Ratchathani Province, the Ministry of Public Health, National Health Security Office and Ubon Ratchathani Provincial Administrative Organization. They jointly established Charoemrat 60 years, Ubon Ratchathani Province in 2006, with emphasis on the use of the Hotline 1669. Four organizations were responsible for this issue as follows. Ubon Ratchathani Province assigned to the Ubon Ratchathani Provincial Health Office to be the support unit and manage emergency medical service system for continuous development. Emergency service units were thoroughly provided the service to people. The National Health Security Office, which was later, the National Institute for Emergency Medicine provided budget to support to development of the emergency medical service system of Ubon Ratchathani Province and to pay for the compensation of emergency medical services according to the actual workload. The Ministry of Public Health was responsible for the academic and personnel development and the evaluation and the development of the emergency medical service system. Ubon Ratchathani Provincial Administrative Organization supported emergency ambulances with equipment to the local government organizations in Ubon Ratchathani Province and other agencies in order to provide people in every area with equal and thorough quality service throughout 24 hours.