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Table 7 Motive groups in SRW/non-SRW patients

From: Self-referred walk-in patients in the emergency department – who and why? Consultation determinants in a multicenter study of respiratory patients in Berlin, Germany

 

SRW,

% of n = 185

non-SRW,

% of n = 278

Overlap of categories (SRW group only, percentage of total positives in row)

Motive group

  

Distress

Access

Quality

Convenience

Distress

65.9

50.0

 

37 (30.3%)

22 (18.0%)

3 (2.5%)

Access

38.4

10.4

37 (52.1%)

 

14 (19.7%)

4 (5.6%)

Quality

24.3

9.7

22 (48.9%)

14 (31.1%)

 

4 (8.9%)

Convenience

5.4

2.2

3 (30.0%)

4 (40.0%)

4 (40.0%)

 
  1. Note. Multiple responses allowed; motives in one or more of these groups were reported by n = 174 (94.1%) of the SRW group and by n = 163 (58.6%) of the non-SRW group