Table 3.

Logistic regression analysis of patients’ and doctors’ assessment of urgency level (dependent variable: ‘immediate’ versus ‘non-urgent’)

	Assessment by patients		Assessment by doctors
	Unadjusted	Adjusted	Unadjusted	Adjusted
	OR (95 % CI)	OR (95 % CI)	OR (95 % CI)	OR (95 % CI)
Country/region of origin
Norway	1	1	1	1
Nordic countries	0.66 (0.45–0.96)*	0.99 (0.60–1.64)	0.64 (0.42–0.97)*	0.81 (0.50–1.32)
Western Europe/North America and Oceania	1.18 (0.62–2.25)	1.16 (0.55–2.42)	0.92 (0.47–1.81)	1.06 (0.53–2.12)
Eastern Europe	3.18 (1.76–5.74)**	3.04 (1.60–5.78)**	0.76 (0.49–1.16)	0.81 (0.51–1.30)
Asia with Turkey	3.68 (2.34–5.77)**	4.08 (2.43–6.84)**	1.04 (0.77–1.41)	1.01 (0.73–1.39)
Africa	4.25 (2.42–7.47)**	8.47 (3.87–18.5)**	0.49 (0.33–0.72)**	0.64 (0.43–0.96)*
Latin America	1.70 (0.64–4.55)	1.82 (0.59–5.55)	1.21 (0.53–2.80)	1.09 (0.45–2.61)
Gender
Female		1		1
Male		1.14 (0.87–1.49)		0.95 (0.76–1.19)
Age (years)
0–19		1		1
20–39		0.91 (0.67–1.24)		1.28 (0.97–1.68)
40–59		2.28 (1.42–3.66)**		2.05 (1.46–2.88)**
≥60		2.73 (1.50–4.97)**		2.46 (1.61–3.76)**
Self-reported RGP status
Registered		1		1
Not registered		0.68 (0.43–1.07)		0.86 (0.57–1.29)
Time of consultation
08:00 a.m. – 03:59 p.m.		1		1
04:00 p.m. – 10:59 p.m.		1.03 (0.79–1.35)		1.16 (0.92–1.46)
11:00 p.m. – 07:59 a.m.		2.91 (1.61–5.27)**		2.35 (1.61–3.43)**

RGP regular general practitioner

Norwegians used as the reference group. OR (odds ratio)

*Significant result at the p < 0.05 level, ** p < 0.001