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Table 2 Variation in prehospital paths by patient residence centrality for all emergency admissions to somatic hospitals in Norway 2014 (N = 497,729a)

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

 

General practitioner

Out-of-hours doctor

Outpatient clinic or PSPCb

Direct admission

Centrality

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

1 (most central)

15,820

18

28,596

32

3828

4

39,842

45

2

32,363

27

45,181

37

2098

2

42,401

35

3

36,372

29

43,537

35

2045

2

42,101

34

4

29,651

31

34,676

37

1537

2

28,592

30

5

16,708

34

18,104

37

606

1

13,564

28

6 (least central)

6845

34

7424

37

189

1

5649

28

  1. a116 cases missing the centrality variable
  2. bPrivate specialist with public contract