| | |
Nordic countries
|
Western Europe, North America, Oceania
|
Eastern Europe
|
Asia including Turkey
|
Africa
|
Latin America
|
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|
Norwegians
|
Immigrantsa
|
---|
|
n = 867
|
n = 620
|
n = 118
|
n = 38
|
n = 101
|
n = 196
|
n = 145
|
n = 22
|
---|
|
%
|
%
|
%
|
%
|
%
|
%
|
%
|
%
|
---|
Assessment by patients of urgency level
|
Less than one hour
|
17.5
|
40.2
|
16.1
|
23.7
|
48.5
|
43.4
|
54.5
|
36.4
|
Within a few hours
|
54.0
|
43.2
|
44.1
|
47.4
|
39.6
|
46.9
|
38.6
|
45.5
|
Non-urgent
|
28.5
|
16.6
|
39.8
|
28.9
|
11.9
|
9.7
|
6.9
|
18.2
|
Assessment by doctors of urgency level
|
Less than one hour
|
1.6
|
1.9
|
0.8
|
5.3
|
2.0
|
2.0
|
1.4
|
4.5
|
Within a few hours
|
36.8
|
29.7
|
28.0
|
31.6
|
29.7
|
35.7
|
21.4
|
36.4
|
Non-urgent
|
61.6
|
68.4
|
71.2
|
63.2
|
68.3
|
62.2
|
77.2
|
59.1
|
Agreement using a Kendall tau-b coefficient
|
0.296**
|
0.129**
|
0.222*
|
−0.120
|
0.127
|
0.195*
|
0.090
|
0.196
|
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aIncluding both first- and second-generation immigrants, **p < 0.05, ** p < 0.001
- Missing pair of observations: Total; n = 334 (18.3 %)