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Table 2 Age distribution for the five most frequent sub-diagnoses according to ICD-10 among each age group for patients given a non-specific hospital diagnosis after calling 112 in 2007–2014 in the North Denmark Region

From: Non-specific diagnoses are frequent in patients hospitalized after calling 112 and their mortality is high – a register-based Danish cohort study

Subdiagnoses

Age groups

0–9 years

10–29 years

30–59 years

60+ years

Total

N

Percent

N

Percent

N

Percent

N

Percent

N

Percent

Unspecified disease (Z039)

311

10.5%

5102

40.7%

11,401

46.5%

18,465

52.9%

35,279

47%

Observation for disease (Z038)

325

11.0%

959

7.7%

1762

7.2%

2088

6.0%

5134

6.9%

Syncope and collapse (R55)

982

7.8%

1257

5.1%

2478

7.1%

4767

6.4%

Suspected nervous disease (Z033)

180

6.1%

1030

4.2%

1146

3.3%

2969

4.0%

Suspected cardiovascular disease (Z035)

947

3.9%

1493

4.3%

2623

3.5%

Observation following transport accident (Z041)

788

6.3%

1742

2.3%

Febrile convulsions (R560)

1602

54.3%

1608

2.1%

Unspecified convulsions (R568)

104

3.5%

806

1.1%

Others

428

14.5%

4396

35.1%

8104

33.1%

9207

26.4%

19,919

26.6%

Total

2948

100.0%

12,524

100.0%

24,500

100.0%

34,875

100.0%

74,847

100.0%