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

Table 1 Red responses distributed by caller, alert and responses

	Total		Innlandet		Stavanger		Haugesund
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Caller to the EMCCs
Next of kin	1 705	34	899	34	520	35	286	31
Bystander	857	17	411	16	263	18	183	20
Health personnel	914	18	523	20	229	15	162	17
Doctor	455	9	267	10	95	6	93	10
LMCC	451	9	206	8	192	12	53	6
Patient	349	7	144	6	117	8	88	10
Police	221	4	115	4	57	4	49	5
Fire department	87	2	58	2	23	2	6	1
Alerted
Ambulance	4 896	96	2 549	97	1 457	95	890	96
GP on call*	2 105	47	469	21	1 047	75	589	72
Air ambulance#	377	8	118	5	201	15	58	7
Anaesthetist (from hospital)	92	2	89	3	0	0	0	0
Fire department	210	4	122	5	47	3	32	3
Police	314	6	160	6	89	6	65	7
Doctors' response†
Call out	829	42	176	47	434	41	219	40
Await	750	37	96	26	471	44	183	33
Confer	287	14	88	24	62	6	137	25
No contact	94	5	11	3	69	6	14	2
Occupied	35	2	3	~0	30	3	2	~0
Total¤	1 995	100	374	100	1 066	100	555	100

¤Differences in numbers between alerted doctors and total numbers on responses are due to missing data in both variables
*Selected cases without doctors as caller
#Selected cases without secondary missions (transfer between hospitals)
† Selected cases where GPs were alerted

ISSN: 1471-227X