The Impact on Emergency Department Utilization and Patient Flows after Integrating with a General Practitioner Cooperative: An Observational Study

Table 1

After-hours ED patient characteristics; numbers and percentages of patients, total of 3 years before and 3 years after the start of the ECAP.

	Before		After^II
	2006–2008*		2009–2011*
	𝑁	%	𝑁	%
Total non-ECAP hours
94.778	44.190	—	50.588	—
Total ECAP hours
110.696	59.182	100	51.513	100
Gender
Male	32.283	54.5	26.843	52.1
Age in years
1–17	13.873	23.4	10.264	19.9
18–29	10.701	18.1	7.591	14.7
30–49	13.698	23.1	10.674	20.7
50–64	8.604	14.5	8.679	16.8
65–84	10.698	18.1	11.980	23.3
≥85	1.608	2.7	2.325	4.5
Time of visit
8 a.m.–5 p.m.^†	16.285	27.5	14.304	27.8
5 p.m.–11 p.m.^‡	30.575	51.7	25.571	49.6
11 p.m.–8 a.m.^§	12.322	20.8	11.638	22.5

∗Excluding December 2008 and December 2011; †weekend days and national holidays; ‡7 days a week; §7 days a week; IIall changes are significant after the ECAP using chi-square testing.