Emergency Medical Services utilization in metropolitan and provincial cities in Indonesia: A cross sectional study on patients attending hospital emergency departments in Jakarta and Jayapura-Papua - data

The data were collected from five hospitals in Indonesia from 12 December 2022 to 25 January 2023. The survey collected data from hospitals in two different types of cities, metropolitan city of Jakarta and provincial city of Jayapura. There are 1521 data points representing participants included in the survey. The questionnaire gathered information on the patients’ demographic profile, medical conditions, reasons on choosing the transport and hospital, and the timing of the events involved in the patients’ journey to the emergency department. The patients’ age was numerical and measured in year, and all other variables related to patients’ demographic profile were categorical. These include patient’s sex, occupation, medical condition, reasons of choosing the transportation, reasons of choosing the hospital, whether patient used national insurance, whether patient knew how to contact ambulance, Category of the city (metropolitan or provincial) .

The journey time data was collected in the form of six ‘timestamps’; when the emergency happened, when the patient decided to go to the hospital and called for the transport, when transport arrived at the scene, when the patient departed to the hospital, when the patient arrived at the hospital, and when the patient received treatment for the first time. These time stamps were recorded using separate columns for date (dd/mm/yyyy) and time (hh/mm/ss).