Improving Response Units Integration a Related Factor to Total Prehospital Time (TPT) on Patients of Public Safety Center (PSC) 119 in Purworejo Regency, Indonesia

Rapid response and appropriate management of Public Safety Center (PSC) 119 team is very necessary for patients who experienced trauma or serious illness in prehospital area. The aim of this study was to identify the response units integration as related factors with total prehospital time (TPT) of PSC 119 in Purworejo Regency.

This research was conducted by Retrospective Chart Review (RCR) design on 105 patients who treated by PSC 119 in Purworejo Regency. Bivariate test was conducted by using Spearman correlation test to investigate the correlation with response unit integration.

The majority of patients were trauma by traffic accident (57.1%). The fastest TPT was 9 minutes and the longest was 105 minutes with an average of 30.85 minutes. Bivariate test results demonstrate that response units integration had a value of p=0.000 (r=0.387). It meant that there was significant correlation between response units integration with TPT.

This study suggests the PSC leaders to improve the integration between the call center unit with response units. The improvement of nurses’ capacity through nursing specialist education and advanced level training of prehospital emergency were very important for optimizing the quality of prehospital intervention. The result of this study was useful in the future as the basic information for research, education and service of prehospital emergency.