The phrase "ambulance usage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the frequency or manner in which ambulances are utilized, often in a healthcare or emergency services context.
Example: "The report highlighted the increase in ambulance usage during peak hours, indicating a need for more resources."
Alternatives: "ambulance utilization" or "use of ambulances".
MLPs participate in the care of low acuity visits, but they also care for sicker patients (as measured by ambulance usage and admission), albeit at a lower rate than among visits seen by physicians.
Among the triage levels, there were statistically significant differences in that the higher levels were associated with a higher proportion of the total admission, as well as an older age (odds ratio 1.04 95%% confidence interval (CI) 1.04 1.04), female gender (odds ratio 0.80 95%% CI 0.73 0.88), ambulance usage (odds ratio 2.71 95%% CI 2.47 2.98), and LOS (odds ratio 1.00 95%% CI 1.00 1.00).
For non-urgent conditions, ambulance usage was associated with social healthcare insurance in all three studies.
Globally, ambulance usage for non-serious conditions shows considerable variation according to demographic factors.
Several (n=4) US-based studies included health insurance status in their analysis of ambulance usage.
Being located in a rural area showed mixed relationships with ambulance usage.
This, as well as difficulties of access, may account for ambulance officers' much greater usage of CIAP at home.
Usage of the ambulance service due to asthma cannot reliably be estimated from the aggregated routinely collected data available in England, Northern Ireland and Wales; this will therefore be identified as a data gap.
Low usage of EMS ambulances has also been reported in other studies in Iran [ 14, 34, 48].
Other important findings that need to be addressed in future research are the low usage of safety equipment and of EMS ambulances.
