Use of emergency care services by immigrants—a survey of walk-in patients who attended the Oslo Accident and Emergency Outpatient Clinic

Table 5 Proportional representation of patient groups compared with that in the general population of Oslo (2010)

	OSLO (ref)	OAEOC	DEGP	SOE
	% (N = 586,860)	% (N = 3864)	% (n = 1821)	% (n = 2043)
Norwegians	72.7	64.7**	57.8**	70.8
Immigrants	27.3	35.3**	42.2**	29.2
First generation	20.9	26.0**	31.7**	21.0
Second generation	6.5	9.3**	10.5**	8.2*
Selected countries^a
Sweden	1.8	4.7**	6.1**	3.5**
Pakistan	3.6	3.5	4.1	3.0
Somalia	1.3	3.0**	3.8**	2.3*
Poland	1.5	2.5**	2.8**	2.3*

OAEOC (Oslo Accident and Emergency Clinic), DEGP (general emergency clinic), SOE (trauma clinic)
*Indicates a significant difference compared with their proportion in the general population of Oslo (p < 0.05), ** p < 0.001
^a Including both first- and second-generation immigrants

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