Table 5.

The 20 most frequent reasons for encounter at red urgency level (potentially life threatening). RFE groups and non-grouped ICPC-2 RFE codes ranked together. Counts, incidences, absolute and cumulative proportions

				Incidence (per 100 000 person-years)		Proportion of red RFEs
Rank	Reason for encounter (RFE)	ICPC-2 or RFE group (G)	N		95% CI	%	Cumulative %
1	Chest pain/symptom/condition	G	1 413	272	(252 to 292)	25.3	25.3
2	Respiratory symptom/condition	G	495	95	(83 to 107)	8.9	34.1
3	General symptom	G	261	50	(42 to 59)	4.7	38.8
4	Coma	A07	231	44	(36 to 52)	4.1	42.9
5	Abdominal pain	G	216	42	(34 to 49)	3.9	46.8
6	Fainting/syncope	A06	186	36	(28 to 43)	3.3	50.1
7	Stroke	K90	170	33	(26 to 40)	3.0	53.1
8	Trauma/injury	A80	163	31	(25 to 38)	2.9	56.1
9	Convulsion/seizure	N07	130	25	(19 to 31)	2.3	58.4
10	Alcohol/substance abuse/addiction	G	111	21	(16 to 27)	2.0	60.4
11	Allergic reaction	A92	102	20	(14 to 25)	1.8	62.2
12	Depression	G	87	17	(12 to 22)	1.6	63.8
13	Head/face symptom/condition	G	75	14	(10 to 19)	1.3	65.1
14	Fears, concerns and worries	G	71	14	(9 to 18)	1.3	66.4
15	Paralysis/weakness	N18	70	13	(9 to 18)	1.3	67.6
16	Lower limb symptom/injury/condition	G	68	13	(9 to 17)	1.2	68.8
17	Neck/back symptom/condition	G	61	12	(8 to 16)	1.1	69.9
18	Poisoning medical agent	A84	53	10	(6 to 14)	0.9	70.9
19	Fever	A03	50	10	(6 to 13)	0.9	71.8
20	Skin injury	G	43	8	(5 to 12)	0.8	72.5
	Other		1 075	207	(189 to 224)	19.2	91.8
	Unknown		461	89	(77 to 100)	8.2	100.0
	All		5 592	1 075	(1 035 to 1 114)	100.0	100.0