Patient characteristics of those receiving community paramedicine responses over the 4-year study period, n=1159
| Patient characteristics | Number (%) |
| Sex | |
| Male | 400 (35) |
| Female | 759 (65) |
| Age | |
| <70 | 103 (9) |
| 70–79 | 143 (12) |
| 80–89 | 416 (36) |
| >90 | 497 (43) |
| No of activity of daily living dependencies | |
| 0 | 90 (8) |
| 1–2 | 91 (8) |
| 3–4 | 116 (10) |
| 5–6 | 829 (72) |
| Advance care planning | |
| Advance care planning | 1076 (93) |
| Do Not Resuscitate order | 798 (69) |
| Do Not Hospitalise order | 457 (39) |
| Insurance status | |
| Medicaid primary | 29 (3) |
| Medicare primary | 768 (66) |
| Private | 356 (31) |
| Chronic conditions | |
| Hypertension | 819 (71) |
| Alzheimer's disease and related disorders or dementia | 580 (50) |
| Pressure and chronic ulcers | 488 (42) |
| Hyperlipidaemia | 501 (43) |
| Depression | 415 (36) |
| Heart failure | 405 (35) |
| Asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchiectasis | 327 (28) |
| Rheumatoid arthritis/osteoarthritis | 397 (34) |
| Atrial fibrillation | 344 (30) |
| Diabetes | 309 (27) |
| Chronic kidney disease | 297 (26) |
| Stroke/transient ischaemic attack | 178 (15) |
| Cancer | 119 (10) |
| Osteoporosis | 102 (9) |