Table 3.

Characteristics and frequency of patients according to priority, patient participation, and other clinical data.

	Patients classified for PHC (n = 426) %	Patient classified for ED (n = 2277) %	p-Value**
Priority at the dispatch centre (0.04)*			<0.0001
Priority one: life-threatening
conditions (red)	27	35
Priority two: urgent but not
life-threatening (orange)	58	55
Priority three: not life-threatening
or urgent (yellow and green)	16	11
RETTS (0.9)*			<0.0001
Red	1	10
Orange	10	34
Yellow	31	43
Green	47	13
Speaks poor Swedish (8)*	4	3
Confused (7)*	1	7	<0.0001
VAS*** > 0 (65)*	19	34
VAS (middle ± SD)	0.9 ± 2.3	1.9 ± 3.2	<0.0001
Transported to hospital (0)*	43	100
Patient participation in
decision (38)*	53	6	<0.0001
If transported to hospital,
hospitalized	7	77

Notes: *Proportion (%) of patients with missing data. **p-value denoted if < 0.05. ***Visual analogue scale; a pain score.