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Table 3 Logistic regression analysis of patients’ and doctors’ assessment of urgency level (dependent variable: ‘immediate’ versus ‘non-urgent’)

From: Is it a matter of urgency? A survey of assessments by walk-in patients and doctors of the urgency level of their encounters at a general emergency outpatient clinic in Oslo, Norway

 

Assessment by patients

Assessment by doctors

 

Unadjusted

Adjusted

Unadjusted

Adjusted

 

OR (95 % CI)

OR (95 % CI)

OR (95 % CI)

OR (95 % CI)

Country/region of origin

Norway

1

1

1

1

Nordic countries

0.66 (0.45–0.96)*

0.99 (0.60–1.64)

0.64 (0.42–0.97)*

0.81 (0.50–1.32)

Western Europe/North America and Oceania

1.18 (0.62–2.25)

1.16 (0.55–2.42)

0.92 (0.47–1.81)

1.06 (0.53–2.12)

Eastern Europe

3.18 (1.76–5.74)**

3.04 (1.60–5.78)**

0.76 (0.49–1.16)

0.81 (0.51–1.30)

Asia with Turkey

3.68 (2.34–5.77)**

4.08 (2.43–6.84)**

1.04 (0.77–1.41)

1.01 (0.73–1.39)

Africa

4.25 (2.42–7.47)**

8.47 (3.87–18.5)**

0.49 (0.33–0.72)**

0.64 (0.43–0.96)*

Latin America

1.70 (0.64–4.55)

1.82 (0.59–5.55)

1.21 (0.53–2.80)

1.09 (0.45–2.61)

Gender

Female

 

1

 

1

Male

 

1.14 (0.87–1.49)

 

0.95 (0.76–1.19)

Age (years)

0–19

 

1

 

1

20–39

 

0.91 (0.67–1.24)

 

1.28 (0.97–1.68)

40–59

 

2.28 (1.42–3.66)**

 

2.05 (1.46–2.88)**

≥60

 

2.73 (1.50–4.97)**

 

2.46 (1.61–3.76)**

Self-reported RGP status

Registered

 

1

 

1

Not registered

 

0.68 (0.43–1.07)

 

0.86 (0.57–1.29)

Time of consultation

08:00 a.m. – 03:59 p.m.

 

1

 

1

04:00 p.m. – 10:59 p.m.

 

1.03 (0.79–1.35)

 

1.16 (0.92–1.46)

11:00 p.m. – 07:59 a.m.

 

2.91 (1.61–5.27)**

 

2.35 (1.61–3.43)**

  1. RGP regular general practitioner
  2. Norwegians used as the reference group. OR (odds ratio)
  3. *Significant result at the p < 0.05 level, ** p < 0.001