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. 2019 Jun 11;6:181. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2019.00181

Table 1.

Emergency setting of respondents' practices across different groups.

All groups BCS RES GPE GPG P-value
Emergency service during regular business hours only 108 [14, 12–17] 1 [1, 0–3] 1 [2, 0–8] 0 [0, NA] 106 [57, 50–64] <0.0001
Emergency service during regular business hours and on call service after hours 89 [12, 9–14] 10 [5, 3–8] 1 [2, 0–8] 0 [0, NA] 78 [42, 35–49] <0.0001
Emergency clinic or service open after regular business hours only 40 [5, 4–7] 4 [2, 1–5] 1 [2, 0–8] 35 [12, 9–16] 0 [0, NA] <0.0001
Emergency clinic or service open 24 hours and able to hospitalize patients 222 [29, 26–32] 33 [15, 11–21] 13 [19, 11–30] 176 [59, 53–64] 0 [0, NA] <0.0001
Emergency/critical care center with board certified emergency clinicians and technicians 303 [39, 36–43] 166 [77, 71–82] 53 [77, 66–85] 84 [28, 23–33] 0 [0, NA] <0.0001
University practice 178 [23, 20–26] 89 [41, 35–48] 49 [71, 59–80] 28 [9, 7–13] 12 [7, 4–11] <0.0001

BCS, board-certified specialists in emergency and critical care and/or anesthesia; RES, residents in emergency and critical care and/or anesthesia; GPE, general practitioners in emergency practice; GPG, general practitioners in non-emergency environment; NA, non-applicable. Number of respondents is expressed as count [percentage of group total, 95% confidence interval]. P-value refers to differences among all groups.