Socioeconomic inequality in telephone triage on triage response, hospitalization and 30-day mortality

Hejdi Gamst-Jensen; Andrea Nedergaard Jensen; Erika Frischknecht Christensen; Freddy Lippert; Mikkel Brabrand; Ingrid Egerod; Lau C Thygesen; Janne S Tolstrup; Linda Huibers

doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckaa242

Socioeconomic inequality in telephone triage on triage response, hospitalization and 30-day mortality

Hejdi Gamst-Jensen^*, Andrea Nedergaard Jensen, Erika Frischknecht Christensen, Freddy Lippert, Mikkel Brabrand, Ingrid Egerod, Lau C Thygesen, Janne S Tolstrup, Linda Huibers

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Abstract

We investigated socioeconomic inequality (measured by the indicators highest attained education level and household income) in telephone triage on triage response (face-to-face contact), hospitalization and 30-day mortality among Danish citizens calling the medical helpline 1813 between 23 January and 9 February 2017. The analysis included 6869 adult callers from a larger prospective cohort study and showed that callers with low socioeconomic status (SES) were less often triaged to a face-to-face contact and had higher 30-day mortality than callers with high SES.

Original language	English
Article number	ckaa242
Journal	European Journal of Public Health
Volume	31
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	703-705
Number of pages	3
ISSN	1101-1262
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa242
Publication status	Published - 11 Oct 2021

Keywords

Adult
After-Hours Care
Hospitalization
Humans
Income
Prospective Studies
Telephone
Triage

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Socioeconomic inequality in telephone triage on triage response, hospitalization and 30-day mortality

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