Reasons for encounter by different levels of urgency in out-of-hours emergency primary health care in Norway: a cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frequencies of reasons for encounter (RFEs) in emergency primary care out-of-hours (OOH) services are relevant for planning of capacities as well as to target the training of staff at casualty clinics. We aimed to present frequencies of RFEs in the different organ systems, and to identify the most frequent RFEs at different urgency levels.

Methods

We analyzed data on RFEs in Norwegian OOH services. International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-2) RFE codes were recorded in all contacts to eight representative OOH casualty clinics in 2014 and 2015 covering 20 municipalities with a total population of 260 196. Frequencies of each ICPC-2 chapters and groups of ICPC-2 codes were calculated at different urgency levels.

Results

Musculoskeletal, respiratory,

SUBMITTER: Raknes G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5483255 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature