Table 2.
Demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the study population in relation with PED visit acuity
| Characteristics | Number of observations available | All PED visits N = 778 |
Low-acuity PED visits N = 452 |
High-acuity PED visits N = 326 |
p-value† | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age ≤ 5 years | 778 | 374 | (48%) | 241 | (53%) | 133 | (41%) | 0.001 |
| Gender: Female | 776 | 388 | (50%) | 218 | (48%) | 170 | (52%) | 0.275 |
| First child | 636 | 339 | (53%) | 209 | (52%) | 130 | (56%) | 0.385 |
| Only child | 726 | 180 | (25%) | 112 | (26%) | 68 | (23%) | 0.324 |
| Any parent < 26 years old | 752 | 35 | (5%) | 26 | (6%) | 9 | (3%) | 0.047 |
| Mother without education or mandatory education only | 711 | 105 | (15%) | 67 | (16%) | 38 | (13%) | 0.209 |
| Father without education or mandatory education only | 703 | 98 | (14%) | 69 | (17%) | 29 | (10%) | 0.008 |
| Mother unemployed | 732 | 187 | (26%) | 121 | (29%) | 66 | (22%) | 0.036 |
| Father unemployed | 716 | 47 | (7%) | 32 | (8%) | 15 | (5%) | 0.140 |
| Child born in Switzerland | 752 | 671 | (89%) | 388 | (89%) | 283 | (90%) | 0.490 |
| Mother born abroad | 744 | 386 | (52%) | 246 | (57%) | 140 | (45%) | 0.001 |
| Father born abroad | 727 | 370 | (51%) | 235 | (56%) | 135 | (44%) | 0.003 |
| Both parents without family in Switzerland | 727 | 124 | (17%) | 80 | (19%) | 44 | (15%) | 0.133 |
| Difficulties to pay household bills | 703 | 141 | (20%) | 102 | (25%) | 39 | (13%) | < 0.001 |
| Travel time to PED < 15 min | 766 | 299 | (39%) | 197 | (44%) | 102 | (32%) | 0.001 |
PED Paediatric emergency department
Values are number (%). For proportion, the denominator is the number of observations available
Definition of low-acuity PED visits: Triage ATS 4 or 5, no laboratory nor imaging tests and no hospital admission
†p-value for comparison of acuity. Pearson’s χ2 test