Emergency services utilization in Jakarta (Indonesia): A cross-sectional study of patients attending hospital emergency departments - data

The data were collected from five hospitals in Jakarta from December 1^st to 31^st 2019. There are 1964 data points representing participants included in the survey. The hospitals’ names were anonymous. 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, etc.

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).

Research results based upon these data are published at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08061-8