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Table 4 Correlation between the percentage of diseases and the percentage of calls in each age group during the study period

From: Patient house calls in Attica and Thessaloniki, Greece (2005-2015): a model for out-of-hospital multispecialty emergency medicine

Diseases

Age group 75-90

Age group > 90

r

p-value

interpretation

r

p-value

interpretation

Infections

−0,88

< 0,001

negative

−0,56

0,075

none

Cardiovascular

−0,83

0,002

negative

−0,94

< 0,001

negative

Musculoskeletal

−0,48

0,131

none

−0,36

0,278

none

Gastrointestinal

−0,79

0,004

negative

−0,61

0,047

negative

Neurological

0,22

0,520

none

0,44

0,179

none

E.N.T.

0,9

< 0,001

positive

0,8

0,003

positive

Psychiatric

−0,008

0,981

none

−0,39

0,237

none

Respiratory tract

0,58

0,064

none

0,63

0,037

positive

Genito-urinary tract

0,31

0,348

none

0,41

0,210

none

Skin/mucosal diseases

−0,52

0,099

none

−0,67

0,020

negative