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Table 4 Unadjusted and adjusted log-binomial regression model for urgent priority by; sex, age, time of day, week, mode of contact and RFE by ICPC-2 chapter

From: Contact characteristics and factors associated with the degree of urgency among older people in emergency primary health care: a cross-sectional study

Variables

n

(%)

Unadjusted

p value

Adjusted

p value

RR (95% CI)

RR (95% CI)

Sex

 Women

8248

(37.3)

Ref.

 

Ref.

 

 Men

6875

(42.7)

1.14 (1.11–1.18)

< 0.001

1.13 (1.09–1.17)

< 0.001

Age groups

 70–74

3586

(38.4)

Ref.

 

Ref.

 

 75–79

3285

(39.9)

1.04 (1.01–1.07)

0.018

1.05 (1.01–1.8)

0.010

 80–84

3143

(38.8)

1.01 (0.96–1.06)

0.698

0.99 (0.93–1.05)

0.718

 85–89

2917

(41.2)

1.07 (1.03–1.12)

0.001

1.08 (1.02–1.13)

0.007

 90+

2197

(40.1)

1.04 (1.01–1.08)

0.011

1.06 (1.01–1.10)

0.012

Time of day

 Day 08:00–15:29

4019

(33.3)

0.83 (0.80–0.87)

< 0.001

0.86 (0.82–0.90)

< 0.001*

 Evening 15:30–22:59

8044

(40.2)

Ref.

 

Ref.

 

 Night 23:00–07:59

3265

(49.7)

1.24 (1.12–1.37)

< 0.001

1.22 (1.12–1.32)

< 0.001*

Week

 Weekday

6602

(43.2)

1.16 (1.08–1.26)

< 0.001

1.13 (1.06–1.20)

< 0.001

 Weekend

8526

(37.1)

Ref.

 

Ref.

 

Mode of contact

 Telephone patient, next of kin, caregiver

6772

(34.1)

Ref.

 

Ref.

 

 Direct attendance

1226

(38.4)

1.13 (1.05–1.21)

0.001

1.13 (1.04–1.22)

0.003

 Telephone health professionals

5173

(41.5)

1.22 (1.12–1.32)

< 0.001

1.21 (1.12–1.31)

< 0.001

RFE by ICPC-2 chapter

 (A) General and unspecified

3064

(37.9)

Ref.

 

Ref.

 

 (L) Musculoskeletal

1992

(38.4)

1.01 (0.93–1.10)

0.754

1.13 (1.02–1.25)

0.015

 (R) Respiratory

2373

(48.1)

1.27 (1.19–1.35)

< 0.001

1.40 (1.30–1.51)

< 0.001

 (U) Urological

1028

(28.9)

0.76 (0.61–0.96)

0.022

0.86 (0.68–1.10)

0.235

 (D) Digestive

1400

(41.8)

1.10 (1.02–1.19)

0.009

1.22 (1.10–1.34)

< 0.001

 (K) Cardiovascular

1616

(66.4)

1.75 (1.63–1.89)

< 0.001

1.85 (1.74–1.96)

< 0.001

 (S) Skin

672

(31.0)

0.82 (0.74–0.91)

< 0.001

0.91 (1.81–1.02)

0.091

 (N) Neurological

827

(54.3)

1.43 (1.26–1.63)

< 0.001

1.55 (1.36–1.77)

< 0.001

 (P) Psychological

341

(28.0)

0.74 (0.67–0.81)

< 0.001

0.78 (0.71–0.86)

< 0.001

 (F) Eye

170

(23.8)

0.63 (0.56–0.71)

< 0.001

0.75 (0.66–0.85)

< 0.001

 (T) Endocrine/metabolic/nutrition

164

(34.2)

0.90 (0.71–1.15)

0.416

0.93 (0.75–1.15)

0.507

 Other chapters a

231

(29.1)

0.77 (0.68–0.87)

< 0.001

0.85 (0.78–0.94)

0.001

  1. Log-binominal regression analyses using women, age group 70–74, evening 15:30–22:59, weekend, telephone from patient or next of kin or caregiver and ICPC-2 chapter “A General and unspecified” as reference; We used clustered standard errors to adjust for possible dependence in the seven OOH-districts; Significant values are marked as bold; aEar (H), Blood (B), Male genital (Y), Female genital (X), Social problems (Z) Pregnancy and family planning (W).*Due to model limitations with too many variables with multiple categories in the adjusted model, the variable “Time of day” was excluded from the adjusted analysis. The reported RR, CI and p-values for this variable were adjusted for a modified RFE-variable (with the categories “A General and unspecified”, “L Musculoskeletal”, “R Respiratory” and “Other chapters”) in addition to the other variables