Table 1 Contact type, characteristics of participants, GP- and parent-assessed of severity, duration of symptoms, parental satisfaction, and prescription rates in preschool children seen by a GP in a face-to-face consultation at the out-of-hours service
Variables | Number (%) | Prescription rates (all medicine) % | Spearman’s rho | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Contact type | Clinic consultations | 1875 (79.3) | 29.9 | ||
Home visits | 488 (20.7) | 16.2 | 0.125 | < 0.001 | |
Gender | Female | 1073 (45.4) | 26.7 | ||
Male | 1290 (54.6) | 27.3 | 0.006 | 0.77 | |
Age (years) | < 1 year | 642 (27.2) | 20.2 | ||
1 year | 627 (26.5) | 30.5 | |||
2 years | 376 (15.9) | 31.6 | |||
3 years | 282 (11.9) | 24.1 | |||
4 years | 235 (9.9) | 34.0 | |||
5 years | 201 (8.5) | 25.4 | −0.062 | 0.003 | |
GP-assessed | |||||
Temperature | No fever | 1466 (62.0) | 25.7 | ||
Unknown | 6 (0.3) | ||||
Fever | 891 (37.7) | 29.2 | 0.038 | 0.064 | |
Severity | Not sick | 357 (15.1) | 1.9 | ||
Not serious and unclear | 1241 (52.5 | 27.3 | |||
Maybe serious | 716 (30.3) | 35.3 | |||
Clearly serious | 49 (2.1) | 4.1 | 0.136 | < 0.001 | |
Severity dichotomized | Not serious | 1598 (67.6) | 24.0 | ||
Possible/clearly serious | 765 (32.4) | 33.3 | 0.098 | < 0.001 | |
Parental assessment | |||||
Duration of symptoms | Under 5 h | 341 (27.9) | 17.3 | ||
(n = 1223) | 5 to 12 h | 238 (19.5) | 34.0 | ||
More than 12 to 24 h | 199 (16.3) | 37.7 | |||
More than 24 h | 429 (35.1) | 30.5 | |||
Unknown | 16 (1.3) | 31.3 | 0.094 | < 0.001 | |
Severity (n = 1220) | Serious, possible life- threatening | 59 (4.8) | 18.6 | ||
Serious, but not life- threatening | 663 (54.3) | 29.7 | |||
Not serious or relevant | 498 (40.8) | 28.3 | −.007 | 0.81 | |
Severity Dichotomized (n = 1220) | Serious | 722 (59.1) | 28.8 | ||
Not serious or relevant | 498 (40.8) | 28.3 | 0.005 | 0.85 | |
Satisfaction (n = 1221) | Very satisfied | 540 (44.2) | 33.0 | ||
Satisfied | 463 (37.9) | 27.2 | |||
Neutral | 131 (10.7) | 24.4 | |||
Dissatisfied | 57 (4.7) | 15.8 | |||
Very dissatisfied | 28 (2.3) | 14.3 | |||
Don’t know | 2 (0.2) | 0 | 0.085 | 0.003 | |