Sentinel monitoring of activity of out-of-hours services in Norway in 2007: an observational study

Table 2 Distribution (%) of mode of contact with range between the casualty clinics and mode of contact according to age groups in years.

			Age group in years
Mode of contact	Total	Range	0–9	10–19	20–39	40–59	60+
Telephone from patient or patient family	65.2	21.3–85.9	78.7	64.5	61.2	65.4	65.2
Direct attendance	25.9	0.5–73.5	20.0	30.8	34.6	27.3	16.3
Contacts from health professionals	6.0	1.3–12.8	0.6	1.8	1.6	3.7	22.1
EMCC*	2.2	1.1–3.5	0.6	1.8	1.7	2.7	4.4
Others	0.7	0.4–1.3	0.1	1.1	0.9	0.9	0.4
Total	100		100	100	100	100	100

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