Table 1 Descriptive information of study population
Gender, n | 11,340 |
Female, n (%) | 6137 (54.1%) |
Male, n (%) | 5203 (45.9%) |
Age, n (%) | |
Mean, (SD) | 30.5 (25.5) |
0–5 years | 2608 (23.0%) |
6–17 years | 1949 (17.2%) |
18–65 years | 5317 (46.9%) |
66+ years | 1466 (12.9%) |
DOW, n (%) | |
1 | 1073 (9.5%) |
2 | 2396 (21.1%) |
3 | 4088 (36.1%) |
4 | 2283 (20.1%) |
5 | 1500 (13.2%) |
Reason for calling, n (%) | |
Somatic illness | 6119 (54.0%) |
Somatic injury | 2048 (18.1%) |
Psychiatric illness | 51 (0.5%) |
Other | 444 (3.9%) |
Not registered | 2678 (23.6%) |
Triage outcome, n (%) | |
Telephone consultation (not seen) | 5763 (50.8%) |
Face-to-face consultation | 5575 (49.2%) |
Admitted to hospitalb | 581 (5.2%) |
Missing | 2 |
Primary ICD-10 diagnosis in face-to-face consultation, n (%)a | 5575 |
Injury or external cause of morbidity | 1749 (31.4%) |
Unclear symptoms and other factors influencing health status | 1055 (18.9%) |
Respiratory | 979 (17.6%) |
Infections | 460 (8.3%) |
Eye and ear | 307 (5.5%) |
Urogenital | 242 (4.3%) |
Digestive | 205 (3.7%) |
Musculoskeletal | 180 (3.2%) |
Skin | 135 (2.4%) |
Circulatory | 122 (2.2%) |
Psychiatric illness | 28 (0.5%) |
Other | 113 (2.0%) |
Missing | 2 |
Comorbidity score, n (%) | |
0 | 9202 (81.2%) |
1 | 1133 (10.0%) |
2+ | 1005 (8.9%) |