Table 3.
Distribution of parent-assessed severity and GP-assessed appropriateness of OOH-PC contacts
| More appropriately targeted to the daytime GP | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parent-assessed severity | Yes (n=) (%) |
No (n=) (%) |
Don’t know (n=) (%) |
All | |
| Telephone consultations | Not severe | 73 (79.4) | 221 (56.5) | 23 (59.0) | 317 (60.7) |
| Potentially severe | 19 (20.6) | 169 (43.2) | 15 (38.5) | 203 (38.9) | |
| Don’t know | 0 | 1 (0.3) | 1 (2.5) | 2 (0.4) | |
| All | 92 (100) | 391 (100) | 39 (100) | 522 (100) | |
| Face-to-face consultations | Not severe | 114 (50.7) | 346 (37.7) | 68 (45.8) | 498 (40.6) |
| Potentially severe | 110 (48.9) | 566 (61.7) | 45 (54.2) | 721 (58.8) | |
| Don’t know | 1 (0.44) | 6 (0.6) | 0 | 7 (0.6) | |
| All | 225 (100) | 918 (100) | 83 (100) | 1.226 (100) | |