Assessment of potential risks when creating a Center for Emergency Medical Care and Disaster Medicine in a constituent entity of the Russian Federation

The purpose of the study was to examine the main expected risks and real-life challenges in combining emergency medical services and disaster medicine into a single legal entity in the region.

Methods. Using a selective survey of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, an analysis of potential risks was carried out when creating a new organizational system of emergency medical care among 3 different organizational forms of providing emergency medical services (Separate substations, a Unified dispatch center and a Unified legal entity) in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The obtained data were subjected to statistical processing using Microsoft Excel and descriptive statistics methods, and the Pearson Correlation Coefficient was calculated.

Results. Analyzing the indicators of the Pearson correlation coefficient, a moderate inverse relationship was identified between the organizational form of the emergency medical service in the constituent entity of the Russian Federation and the level of economic fears. In comparison, a high negative correlation coefficient was noted for administrative factors. On the side of social factors, the Pearson correlation coefficient was 0, which suggests that, regardless of the organizational form, social concerns were consistently lower than economic and administrative ones.

Conclusion. The study showed that the majority of managers assess all possible risks and problems commensurately. At the same time, a clear overestimation of economic and administrative factors was revealed.

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