Table I.
Proportions of patients who either had a new contact with the OOH, a contact with the daytime GP, a hospital admission, or died during a 30-day follow-up after OOH contact: Distribution shows the five chronic diseases, the 2 + diagnosed, and other patients.1,2
| Heart disease n = 493 (100%) |
Lung disease n = 1654 (100%) |
Diabetes n = 1525 (100%) |
Psychiatric disease n = 355 (100%) |
Cancer n = 1490 (100%) |
2 + diagnosed n = 1126 (100%) |
Other patients n = 7696 (100%) |
Total population n = 11 897 (100%) |
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| Exacerbation | ||||||||||||||||
| Proportion, n (%): | ||||||||||||||||
| OOH | 27 | (19.1) | 96 | (19.1) | 63 | (15.2) | 31 | (24.6) | 64 | (20.5) | 75 | (24.1) | 132 | (13.2) | 335 | (15.7) |
| Daytime GP | 109 | (74.9) | 414 | (70.6) | 277 | (71.2) | 76 | (59.1) | 235 | (68.8) | 262 | (69.5) | 639 | (64.9) | 1438 | (67.1) |
| Hospital admission | 43 | (34.5) | 139 | (25.4) | 93 | (24.0) | 45 | (30.0) | 72 | (27.2) | 90 | (3.8) | 243 | (21.7) | 520 | (23.1) |
| Death | 15 | (8.7) | 37 | (10.0) | 2 | (0.5) | 47 | (16.4) | 36 | (14.1) | 24 | (1.5) | 108 | (1.5) | 108 | (4.6) |
| New health problem | ||||||||||||||||
| Proportion, n (%): | ||||||||||||||||
| OOH | 41 | (15.6) | 137 | (14.2) | 139 | (12.0 | 43 | (24.7) | 111 | (8.7) | 85 | (21.6) | 676 | (12.8) | 1043 | (10.8) |
| Daytime GP | 248 | (67.8) | 749 | (67.3) | 851 | (72.9) | 148 | (62.9) | 813 | (69.4) | 561 | (73.5) | 3,938 | (56.2) | 6094 | (59.5) |
| Hospital admission | 87 | (32.0) | 260 | (24.1) | 305 | (27.8) | 61 | (25.7) | 72 | (26.4) | 192 | (1.6) | 1,446 | (18.5) | 2229 | (20.4) |
| Death | 29 | (9.9) | 50 | (3.49) | 62 | (4.3) | 2 | (0.2) | 85 | (6.9) | 61 | (7.3) | 81 | (0.5) | 234 | (1.4) |
Notes: 1Contact distribution-related weighted estimates (95% confidence interval). 2Patients with more than one of the five chronic diseases were included in the numerator for each specific disease; hence the sum of all diseases sum to more than the total population.