General practitioners’ and out-of-hours doctors’ role as gatekeeper in emergency admissions to somatic hospitals in Norway: registry-based observational study

Table 2 Variation in prehospital paths by patient residence centrality for all emergency admissions to somatic hospitals in Norway 2014 (N = 497,587^a)

	General practitioner		Out-of-hours doctor		Outpatient clinic or PSPC^b		Direct admission
Centrality	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
1 (most central)	13,838	16	24,804	28	4038	5	45,370	52
2	28,695	24	39,335	32	2271	2	51,675	42
3	32,060	26	37,024	30	2241	2	52,665	42
4	26,397	28	29,909	32	1675	2	36,426	39
5	14,972	31	15,458	32	667	1	17,859	36
6 (least central)	6156	31	6226	31	217	1	7493	37

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