Table 1

Ambulance initial clinical impressions and the final diagnosis available in the Combined National Dataset for all cases

Final diagnosis in the Combined National Dataset (column %)
STEMINSTEACSOther CHDNon-CHDNot admittedTotal
Total546528 30414 8622 184 334163 4262 396 391
Ambulance-suspected cardiac
 Suspected STEMI2016 (36.9)472 (1.7)86 (0.6)733 (0.1)250 (0.2)3557 (0.1)
 Other suspected ACS792 (14.5)6876 (24.3)2484 (16.7)21 931 (1.0)6249 (3.8)38 332 (1.6)
Ambulance ‘ACS not suspected’1181 (21.6)8785 (31.0)3749 (25.2)367 642 (16.8)156 927 (96.0)538 284 (22.5)
Not attended by ambulance1476 (27.0)12 171 (43.0)8543 (57.5)1 794 028 (82.1)1 816 218 (75.8)
  • CHD, coronary heart disease; NSTEACS, non-ST-elevated acute coronary syndrome; STEMI, ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.