Skip to main content

Table 6 Likelihood (odds ratio) of nurse telephone counselling by time of day and age of patient

From: Telephone counselling by nurses in Norwegian primary care out-of-hours services: a cross-sectional study

Variables

OR

95% CI

P-value

Time of day

 Daytime shift

Ref.

  

 Evening shift

1.11

1.10–1.16

<0.001

 Night shift

1.81

1.71–1.92

<0.001

Age group

 0–5

Ref.

  

 6–15

0.71

0.66–0.77

<0.001

 16–29

0.63

0.59–0.67

<0.001

 30–59

0.53

0.50–0.56

<0.001

 60–79

0.43

0.40–0.46

<0.001

 80≤

0.45

0.41–0.49

<0.001

  1. Logistic regression analyses using daytime shift and age group 0–5 years as reference