Table 5.
Reasons for hospitalisation, and diagnoses at hospital
| Reason given for hospitalisation by physician at the OAEOC | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diagnosis at hospital | Poisoning n (%) | Injury n (%) | Other somatic condition n (%) | Psychiatric condition n (%) | Unclarified condition n (%) | Total n (%) |
| Poisoning | 171 (83) | 2 (20) | 27 (34) | 25 (45) | 63 (56) | 236 (60)a |
| Injury | - | 7 (70) | 5 (6) | - | 3 (3) | 14 (4)a |
| Infection | 6 (3) | - | 13 (16) | 1 (2) | 5 (4) | 21 (5)a |
| Other somatic | 17 (8) | 1 (10) | 25 (31) | 2 (4) | 20 (18) | 57 (15)a |
| Psychiatric | 11 (5) | - | 2 (3) | 14 (25) | 5 (4) | 27 (7)a |
| Substance abuse | 11 (5) | 1 (10) | 10 (13) | 12 (21) | 14 (12) | 41 (10)a |
| Did not present | - | - | - | 4 (7) | 4 (4) | 8 (2)a |
| Total | 206 (100)a | 10 (100)a | 80 (100)a | 56 (100)a | 113 (100)a | 391 (100)a |
OAEOC Oslo Accident and Emergency Outpatient Clinic
aNumbers and percentages may add up to more than total (100) as some patients were hospitalised for several reasons and some received more than one diagnosis at the hospital