Reasons for encounter by different levels of urgency in out-of-hours emergency primary health care in Norway: a cross sectional study

Table 6 Incidence (per 100 000 person-years) of the 20 most frequent single ICPC-2 RFE codes at different urgency levels

Rank #	Green (not urgent)			Yellow (urgent)			Red (potentially life threatening)
	ICPC-2 code and description		Incidence	ICPC-2 code and description		Incidence	ICPC-2 code and description		Incidence
1	A03	Fever	1 305	D01	Abdominal pain, general	633	A11	Chest pain	164
2	R05	Cough	865	S18	Laceration/cut	621	K01	Heart pain	103
3	D01	Abdominal pain, general	841	R02	Dyspnoea	357	R02	Dyspnoea	55
4	R21	Throat symptom	759	A03	Fever	325	A07	Coma	44
5	S18	Laceration/cut	662	A11	Chest pain	209	A06	Fainting/syncope	36
6	L17	Foot/toe symptom	573	N01	Headache	186	D01	Abdominal pain, general	35
7	U71	Cystitis/Lower UTI	535	L02	Back symptom	160	K90	Stroke	33
8	L12	Hand/finger symptom	496	L12	Hand/finger symptom	149	A80	Trauma/injury	31
9	H01	Ear pain	379	L09	Arm symptom	132	R04	Breathing problem, other	30
10	L02	Back symptom	373	L16	Ankle symptom	129	N07	Convulsion/seizure	25
11	A29	General symptom	367	L17	Foot/toe symptom	127	A92	Allergic reaction	20
12	A13	Fear medical treatment	336	R21	Throat symptom	124	P77	Suicide/suicide attempt	15
13	N01	Headache	334	R05	Cough	110	N01	Headache	14
14	A97	No disease	319	D06	Abdominal pain, localized	105	N18	Paralysis/weakness	13
15	L16	Ankle symptom	319	N17	Vertigo/dizziness	103	K84	Heart disease, other	13
16	A27	Fear of other diseases	305	R29	Respiratory symptom	101	P16	Acute alcohol abuse	12
17	R02	dyspnea	288	L14	Leg/thigh symptom	90	A29	General symptom	12
18	F29	Eye symptom/complaint, other	284	A29	General symptom	85	K29	Cardiovascular symptom	11
19	L15	Knee symptom	280	R04	Breathing problem	84	A84	Poisoning medical agent	10
20	L09	Arm symptom	274	A06	Fainting/syncope	83	A03	Fever	10
Unknown ICPC-2			2 450			633			89
Total			24 207			8 673			1 075

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