Stroke Patient Transfer Times for Tempe Emergency Response

Annual summarized averages of emergency response and transport times for stroke patients handled by the Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department. Data originates from stroke alerts where a receiving hospital was notified, with total time calculated from initial patient contact to hospital arrival. The dataset supports analysis of a critical performance measure directly impacting patient recovery outcomes.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between summarized average transfer times and annual performance targets for stroke care.
• Benchmark annual performance metrics for stroke patient transport against other emergency medical services.
• Model the impact of annual transfer time averages on predicted patient recovery outcomes using historical alert data.

Strengths

• Data originates from a formal public safety department's operational records (Tempe Fire Medical Rescue).
• Focuses on a specific, high-impact medical condition (stroke) where transfer time is clinically critical.
• Includes a direct link to an official performance measure dashboard for external validation.

Limitations

• Contains only pre-aggregated summary statistics (averages), not raw, patient-level event timestamps.
• Geographic scope is limited to the jurisdiction of a single city's fire department.
• Annual publication frequency limits analysis of intra-year trends or seasonal variations.

Provenance

Source

Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department via Image Trend software.

Collection Method

Report run on Image Trend, then exported to Excel.

Freshness

Annual

Geography

Tempe, Arizona, USA