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Table 2 Demographic characteristics of older persons with and without out-of-hours GPCa contact (n = 32,149)

From: Older persons are frailer after an emergency care visit to the out-of-hours general practitioner cooperative in the Netherlands: a cross-sectional descriptive TOPICS-MDS study

Characteristics (n)

out-of-hours GPC contact

no out-of-hours GPC contact

ORb

95% CIc

P-valued

n

%

n

%

Gender (32,136)

      

< 0.0001

 Male

3239

25.2

9601

74.8

1.13

1.07–1.20

 

 Female

4402

22.8

14,894

77.2

1

  

Age (32,149)

      

< 0.0001

 90 years and older

598

21.8

2141

78.2

1.11

0.98–1.25

 

 85–89 years

1318

25.2

3909

74.8

1.27

1.16–1.40

 

 80–84 years

1882

24.0

5955

76.0

1.16

1.07–1.27

 

 75–79 years

1870

22.2

6566

77.8

1.05

0.97–1.15

 

 70–74 years

1339

22.4

4643

77.6

1

  

 65–69 years

640

33.2

1288

66.8

1.10

0.97–1.24

 

Educational level (31,883)

      

0.017

 Low

2802

25.2

8306

74.8

1.09

1.03–1.16

 

 Moderate

3531

23.1

11,747

76.9

1

  

 High

1248

22.7

4249

77.3

1.02

0.94–1.10

 

Marital status (32,083)

      

0.876

 Widow (er)

2939

23.3

9672

76.7

0.99

0.93–1.05

 

 Divorced/Single

879

24.5

2709

75.5

0.98

0.90–1.07

 

 Married/Living together

3804

23.9

12,080

76.1

1

  

Nationality (31,708)

      

0.439

 First/second generation immigrants

770

27.5

2035

72.5

1.04

0.94–1.14

 

 Dutch

6782

23.5

22,121

76.5

1

  

Living situation (32,149)

      

0.250

 Retirement home

734

21.0

2754

79.0

1.07

0.95–1.21

 

 At home

6913

24.1

21,748

75.9

1

  

SESe (30,118)

      

0.008

 SES 4th quartile (low SES)

1940

26.5

5381

73.5

1.14

1.05–1.25

 

 SES 3rd quartile

1621

24.8

4921

75.2

1.14

1.04–1.24

 

 SES 2nd quartile

2085

22.9

7022

77.1

1.13

1.04–1.22

 

 SES 1st quartile (high SES)

1424

19.9

5724

80.1

1

  
  1. a GPC general practitioner cooperative. b OR Odds Ratio based on multilevel analysis, with correction for cluster effects between studies. c CI confidence interval. d bold p-values are statistically significant. e SES socioeconomic status