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Table 2 Potential participants: screening, exclusion frequencies and reasons

From: Self-referred walk-in patients in the emergency department – who and why? Consultation determinants in a multicenter study of respiratory patients in Berlin, Germany

Patients

n

For exclusions: % of n = 1121 patients excluded

Screened

1593

Included

472

Excluded

1121

100.0

Unable to give valid informed consent (e.g. cognitive impairment)

180

16.1

Case definition criteria not met (e.g. wrong symptom, age etc.)

187

16.7

Acute medical reasons

42

3.7

Inadequate language proficiency

151

13.5

Restrictions of ED workflow (e.g. unavailable as to ongoing treatment)

262

23.4

Refusal

299

26.7

- Feeling too ill

176

 

- General disinterest

98

 

- Other reasons for refusal

25