General practitioners’ and out-of-hours doctors’ role as gatekeeper in emergency admissions to somatic hospitals in Norway: registry-based observational study

Table 3 Distribution of prehospital pathways for all admissions (except birth related conditions), and by discharge diagnosis (ICD-10 codes) for the 20 most common diagnosis after somatic hospital stays in Norway 2014

	General practitioner		Out-of-hours doctor		Outpatient clinic or PSPC^a		Direct admission		Sum
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
All admissions	122,126	25	152,800	31	11,110	2	211,551	43	497,587	100
Diagnosis (ICD-10)
Pneumonia (J15 + J18)	5595	27	6557	32	3161	1	8198	40	20,488	100
Pain in throat and chest (R07)	4332	27	6613	41	138	1	5287	32	16,320	100
Abdominal and pelvic pain (R10)	4538	29	7163	46	88	1	3723	24	15,518	100
Atrial fibrillation and flutter (I48)	3990	34	3314	28	94	1	4391	37	11,873	100
Acute myocardial infarction (I21)	2386	21	3115	28	178	1	5694	50	11,310	100
Fracture of femur (S72)	1240	12	2684	27	115	2	5821	58	9958	100
Chronic obstructive pumonary disease (J44)	2350	26	2897	32	213	1	3705	41	9003	100
Intracranial injury (S06)	1045	13	3276	40	51	4	3595	44	8249	100
Other dissorders of urinary system (N39)	1899	25	2697	36	333	1	2842	38	7498	100
Cerebral infarction (I63)	1687	23	1835	25	60	1	3831	52	7409	100
Heart failure (I50)	2579	35	1874	25	56	1	2859	39	7392	100
Angina pectoris (I20)	1915	28	1922	28	80	2	2794	41	6750	100
Complications of procedures (T81)	1139	20	1338	23	119	3	3151	54	5820	100
Alcohol related disorders (F10)	546	9	2838	49	192	0	2368	41	5779	100
Acute appendicitis (K35)	1686	30	2958	52	27	0	987	17	5642	100
Syncope and collapse (R55)	1177	22	1954	37	11	1	2108	40	5294	100
Choleolithiasis (K80)	1424	28	2193	44	55	1	1355	27	5002	100
Medical observation (Z03)	1383	28	1527	31	30	1	1945	40	4914	100
Fracture of forearm (S52)	629	13	1799	38	59	7	2013	42	4777	100
Fracture of lower leg, including ancle (S82)	562	12	1645	35	228	5	2247	48	4682	100
Sum	42,102		60,199		2463		68,914		173,678	35 (of all)

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