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Table 4 Possible actions if AHHC medical services were not available stratified by patient characteristics

From: Patients’ impressions of after-hours house-call services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: a questionnaire-based observational study

 

Expected actions if no use of AHHC medical services

 
 

Remain at home

Wait until working hours

Visit the ED

Call an ambulance

Other

 

Characteristic

(n = 247)

(13.7%)

(n = 752)

(41.7%)

(n = 634)

(35.2%)

(n = 140)

(7.8%)

(n = 29)

(1.6%)

p

Age (years), n (%)

          

 < 0.001

0–15

70

(11.3)

250

(40.5)

276

(44.7)

14

(2.3)

8

(1.3)

 

16–64

149

(15.4)

418

(43.1)

306

(31.5)

81

(8.4)

16

(1.6)

 

65–74

9

(10.5)

38

(44.2)

23

(26.7)

13

(15.1)

3

(3.5)

 

 > 74

19

(14.8)

46

(35.9)

29

(22.7)

32

(25.0)

2

(1.6)

 

Whether the patients suspected themselves of having COVID-19 infection or not

          

 < 0.001

Yes

145

(13.6)

394

(36.9)

414

(38.8)

100

(9.4)

14

(1.3)

 

No

102

(13.9)

358

(48.7)

220

(29.9)

40

(5.4)

15

(2.0)

 

Symptom severity, n (%)

          

 < 0.001

Mild

146

(14.9)

442

(45.1)

328

(33.5)

48

(4.9)

16

(1.6)

 

Moderate

99

(12.6)

299

(38.1)

298

(38.0)

75

(9.6)

13

(1.7)

 

Severe

2

(5.3)

11

(28.9)

8

(21.1)

17

(44.7)

0

(0.0)

 
  1. Abbreviations: AHHC after hour house call, ED emergency department