Introducing an on-site Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) physician at the Emergency Medical Communication Centre - implications for dispatch precision at a Norwegian HEMS base

Table 5 Individual HEMS mission rejections as HEMS physician and on-site EP

Physician	Rejected/requests as HP (%)	Rejected/requests as EP (%)	Difference (%-points)	P-value
A	9/122 (7.4)	10/34 (29.4)	22.0
B	5/119 (4.2)	2/11 (18.2)	14.0
C	25/255 (9.8)	9/59 (15.3)	5.5
D	36/179 (20.1)	14/31 (45.2)	25.5
E	12/253 (4.7)	9/39 (23.1)	18.3
F	4/203 (2.0)	3/29 (10.3)	8.4
G	9/154 (5.8)	5/52 (9.6)	3.8
A-G	100/1285 (7.8)	52/255 (20.4)	12.6	< 0.001¹

HEMS: Helicopter Emergency Medical Services, HP: HEMS hysician, EP: Emergency Medical Communication Centre Physician. ¹Pearson Chi-square test

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