Table 4 Response time registered during 2012–2013 between PS and TS dispatched from urban and rural stations, based on pre-calculated 8- and 15-ms response thresholds, respectively. These figures are official figures set by the department of health and welfare
Variable | Group | Urban | Rural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Response time | |||||||
≤8 min | >8 min | Total | ≤15 min | >15 min | Total | ||
PS | 30,246 (49 %) | 31,887 (51 %) | 62,133 | 456 (78 %) | 132 (22 %) | 597 | |
TS | 668 (51 %) | 635 (49 %) | 1303 | 1 (100 %) | 0 (0 %) | 1 | |
P = 0.0258 | |||||||
Mean ± SD (min) | 8.73 ± 4.18 | 11.16 ± 7.73 | |||||