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Table 3 Most frequent reasons for encounters in detail (physician recorded), eleven reasons for medical consultation account for more than one third (36.1%)

From: Reasons for encounters and psychiatric comorbidity in an urban Bavarian primary care out-of-hour service - results of a cross sectional study

Reasons for encounters according to full ICPC-2

Absolute frequency (percentage)

Lower back pain (L03)

32 (5.7%)

UTI (U71)

29 (5.2%)

Post coital birth control (W10)

26 (4.6%)

Insect bites (S12)

22 (3.9%)

Ankle sprain (L16)

16 (2.9%)

Upper respiratory infection, acute (R74)

15 (2.7%)

Acute bronchitis/bronchiolitis (R78)

14 (2.5%)

Back pain (L86)

13 (2.3%)

Upper back pain (L01)

12 (2.1%)

Chest pain (K01)

12 (2.1%)

Tonsillitis, acute (R76)

12 (2.1%)

Total number

203 (36.1%)