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Table 3 Alerts and responses by rural and central municipalities

From: Involvement in emergency situations by primary care doctors on-call in Norway - a prospective population-based observational study

    

Response if alerted§

 

Doctors alerted*

Call-out

Await

Consulted

Otherβ

Municipal centrality

n

%

P-

value

n

%

P-

value

n

%

P-

value

n

%

P-

value

n

%

P-

value

Innlandet (n = 461)

               

   Remote

387

19

 

147

49

 

70

23

 

72

24

 

13

4

 

   Central

74

28

0.00

19

32

0.02

25

42

0.00

15

25

0.74

1

1

0.36

Stavanger (n = 1058)

               

   Remote

71

70

 

39

57

 

12

18

 

10

15

 

7

10

 

   Central

987

76

0.22

381

40

0.00

439

46

0.00

50

5

0.00

89

9

0.81

Haugesund (n = 586)

               

   Remote

529

68

 

193

40

 

168

35

 

109

22

 

16

3

 

   Central

57

84

0.01

20

36

0.63

12

22

0.10

23

42

0.00

0

0

0.18

Total

               

   Remote

987

33

 

379

45

 

250

29

 

191

22

 

36

4

 

   Central

1 118

68

0.00

420

39

0.02

476

45

0.00

88

8

0.00

90

8

0.00

  1. *Doctors as callers were excluded from analyses
  2. §Differences between numbers for alerted doctors and total numbers for responses are due to missing data
  3. β"Occupied" and "No contact" were merged to "Other"
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