Influence of social characteristics on use of paediatric emergency care in Sweden - a questionnaire based study

BMC Emergency Medicine

Table 2 Adjusted multiple logistic regression models on paediatric emergency department (ED) visits triaged away from the ED or assessed appropriate for ED care at a paediatric ED in Sweden

Parental socal characteristics^a	Paediatric ED visits initially triaged home or for other level of healthcare		Paediatric ED visits initially triaged for ED care and later also assessed appropriate, for ED care^b
Parental socal characteristics^a	OR^c (95% CI^d)	P-value	OR^c (95% CI^d)	P-value
Both parents born outside the Nordic countries	1.661 (1.091–2.528)	0.018	0.698 (0.506–0.962)	0.028
Both parents having low^e understanding of Swedish language	2.655 (1.399–5.035)	0.003	0.429 (0.228–0.808)	< 0.001
Both parents educated less than 12 years	0.985 (0.650–1.494)	> 0.300	0.863 (0.632–1.177)	> 0.300
Both parents unemployed	0.997 (0.557–1.787)	> 0.300	0.888 (0.553–1.425)	> 0.300
Single-parent household	0.579 (0.302–1.109)	0.099	0.869 (0.554–1.363)	> 0.300
First-born child	1.960 (1.299–2.956)	0.001	0.681 (0.507–0.914)	0.010

^aAccording to parental questionnaire with 3.3–8.9% lack of responses to single questions
^bAccording to structured assessments by ED physicians
^cOdds ratio (OR) adjusted for patient age, gender, and order among siblings, for country of birth of the parents, knowledge of Swedish language, level of education, and employment (highest level among parents), and household status, by multiple binary regression analysis
^dConfidence interval (CI) of OR
^eSelf-rated as levels 1–4 on a six-level Likert scale

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