Table 2.

Home visits and consultations in cancer-related contacts for out-of-hours services 2014, by age (n = 5764), main cancer diagnosis (n = 5764) and additional diagnoses noted in the same contact (n = 2533).

	Home visit (n = 1613)		Consultation (n = 4151)
Category	n	%	n	%	pa
Age (years)					<0.001
0-40	35	2.2	239	5.8
41-60	206	12.8	947	22.8
61-80	901	55.9	2254	54.3
>80	471	29.2	711	17.1
ICPC main cancer diagnosis					<0.001
A: General and unspecified	229	14.2	414	10.0
B: Blood, blood forming  organs, immune mechanism	96	6.0	406	9.8
D: Digestive	429	26.6	837	20.2
R: Respiratory	364	22.6	693	16.7
U: Urological	90	5.6	265	6.4
X: Female genital	88	5.5	420	10.1
Y: Male genital	125	7.7	562	13.5
Other	192	11.9	554	13.3
ICPC additional diagnosis					<0.001
Pain	70	10.9	277	14.5
Infection/fever	113	17.6	481	25.2
Respiratory	55	8.6	154	8.1
Genitourinary	39	6.1	169	8.8
Neurological	33	5.1	70	3.7
Gastrointestinal	60	9.3	166	8.7
Haematological	16	2.5	53	2.8
Cardiovascular	41	6.4	99	5.2
Musculoskeletal	8	1.2	37	1.9
Psychiatric	27	4.2	69	3.6
Death	82	12.8	10	0.5
Other	98	15.3	326	17.1

^aPearson Chi-square p value.