Ambulance deployment without transport: a retrospective difference analysis for the description of emergency interventions without patient transport in Bavaria.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis work is part of the “Rettungswageneinsatz ohne Transport” [“Ambulance deployment without transport”] (RoT)” study. Permission (EC Ref. no. 19-776) on this study was issued by the Ethics Committee of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich on 26/09/2019. Furthermore, the study has been registered in the German Register of Clinical Trials under the number DRKS00017758. Specific QM aspects of this study were submitted to the journal Bundesgesundheitsblatt—Gesundheitsforschung—Gesundheitsschutz [12]. This article does not involve any studies on humans or animals conducted by the author. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsFlorian Dax worked as a specialist for integrated dispatch centres at the Bavarian Red Cross (Bayerisches Rotes Kreuz, BRK) and is responsible for the strategic development of the BRK dispatch centres. The BRK operates eight of the 26 Integrated Dispatch Centres in Bavaria. Heiko Trentzsch, Marc Lazarovici, Kathrin Hegenberg, Katharina Kneißl, Florian Hoffmann and Stephan Prückner declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests Florian Dax worked as a specialist for integrated dispatch centres at the Bavarian Red Cross (Bayerisches Rotes Kreuz, BRK) and is responsible for the strategic development of the BRK dispatch centres. The BRK operates eight of the 26 Integrated Dispatch Centres in Bavaria. Heiko Trentzsch, Marc Lazarovici, Kathrin Hegenberg, Katharina Kneißl, Florian Hoffmann and Stephan Prückner declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. The Study was self-funded by the submitting institution."

"Trial registration This paper is part of the study “Rettungswageneinsatz ohne Transport” [“Ambulance deployment without transport”] (RoT), which was registered in the German Register of Clinical Studies under the number DRKS00017758."