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

Table 2 Involvement of doctors and locations for transport of patients

Patients transported to	Casualty clinic		Hospital via casualty clinic		Admitted to hospital by doctors		Directly to hospital by ambulance		Patients stayed at scene		Dead patients		Follow up by others		Total*
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Doctors were callers	22	5	30	7	356	80	16	4	20	4	3	~0	0	0	447	100
Doctors alerted§
Yes	328	15	270	13	781	37	334	16	283	13	117	5	23	1	2 136	100
No	403	14	250	9	934	34	837	31	239	9	50	2	18	1	2 731	100
Total	731	15	520	11	1 715	35	1 171	24	522	11	167	3	41	1	4 867	100
Doctors' response when alerted
Call out	75	9	41	5	455	56	7	1	128	16	98	12	6	1	810	100
Await	157	21	162	22	142	19	205	28	55	8	10	1	9	1	740	100
Consult	32	11	25	9	128	45	23	8	72	25	2	1	2	1	284	100
No contact	20	22	11	12	16	18	30	33	12	13	1	1	1	1	91	100
Occupied	8	23	11	31	7	20	8	23	1	3	0	0	0	0	35	100
Total*	292	15	250	13	748	38	273	14	268	14	111	5	18	1	1 960	100

* Differences in numbers between alerted doctors and doctors response are due to missing data
§Doctors as callers are excluded

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