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

Table 4 Alerts and responses for not life-threatening (NACA 0-3) and life-threatening situations (including death) (NACA 4-7)

			Innlandet				Stavanger				Haugesund
	Total		Not life-threatening		Life-threatening		Not life-threatening		Life-threatening		Not life-threatening		Life-threatening
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Doctors were callers	403	100	152	61	96	39	48	65	26	35	51	63	30	37
Doctors on call alerted^§
Yes	1 881	47	277	18	146	26	676	77	255	78	366	73	161	69
No	2 162	53	1 271	82	411	74	200	23	71	22	135	27	73	31
Total	4 042	100	1 548	100	557	100	876	100	326	100	501	100	234	100
Doctors' response when alerted
Call out	778	43	85	38	81	64	265	40	143	56	122	36	87	54
Await	639	36	71	32	20	16	321	47	83	32	126	37	36	22
Consult	287	16	57	25	26	20	39	6	12	5	83	24	34	22
No contact	70	4	9	4	0	0	37	5	14	5	10	3	2	1
Occupied	26	1	2	1	0	0	17	2	5	2	1	~0	1	1
Total*	1 800	100	224	100	127	100	679	100	257	100	342	100	160	100

*Differences in numbers between alerted doctors and total numbers on responses are due to missing data
§Doctors as caller are excluded

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