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Table 1 Description of population (%)

From: Patient motives for contacting out-of-hours care in Denmark: a cross-sectional study

 

OUT-OF-HOURS-PRIMARY CARE

EMS

Children

(N = 961)

Adults

(N = 910)

Children

(N = 89)

Adults

(N = 886)

Characteristics of contact

 Time of contact, weekend1

56.8

57.5

58.4

55.0

 Type of contact, telephone advice

56.3

52.8

14.5

10.7

 Age patient (mean)

4.0

49.0

3.9

61.6

 Main health problem, self-assessed

n = 1342

n = 1084

n = 134

n = 996

  - Symptoms/complaints

77.9

68.1

76.9

69.5

  - Infections

7.2

8.8

0.7

0.8

  - Trauma

4.9

7.6

13.4

17.8

  - Other

10.1

15.6

9.0

11.9

 Duration of symptom

  - < 1 h

14.4

16.1

94.3

66.1

  - 1–24 h

52.1

52.0

4.6

30.1

  - > 24 h

33.4

31.9

1.2

3.8

 Decision maker

  - Patient/parent

97.3

84.5

89.9

45.0

  - Family/other

2.7

15.6

7.9

46.9

  - Unknown

0.0

0.0

2.3

8.1

Characteristics of patient/guardian2

 Age (years)

  - 18–39

73.9

36.0

74.4

16.8

  - 40–64

26.1

40.6

24.4

31.1

  - > 64

0.0

23.4

1.2

52.1

 Sex, female

80.5

62.5

72.1

47.2

 Education

  - Low

4.9

15.0

10.8

26.7

  - Middle

34.2

47.7

31.3

45.6

  - High

60.9

37.3

57.8

27.7

 Ethnicity

  - Native

85.4

88.9

78.3

85.7

  - Western migrants

7.6

6.0

10.8

8.9

  - Non-western migrants

7.0

5.1

10.8

5.5

 Marital status, single

9.3

30.6

21.4

39.3

 Employment, not working

26.9

45.5

28.9

71.2

 Health status, self-assessed, poor

5.3

23.4

6.0

36.6

  1. 1Day: weekend is from Friday 4 p.m. until Monday 8 a.m., week is Monday to Thursday from 4 p.m. to 8 a.m. the next day; 2For children, background information concerns parent/caregiver; Number of missing values varies per variable