Increasing emergency number utilisation is not driven by low-acuity calls: an observational study of 1.5 million emergency calls (2018–2021) from Berlin

Table 3 Results of logistic regression analysis for a call being low-acuity, applied to the emergency call data of 2021

Variable	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	p-value
Intercept	0.37 [0.36–0.37]	p < 0.001 ***
Age group
0–9	1.50 [1.45–1.55]	p < 0.001 ***
10–19	1.77 [1.71–1.83]	p < 0.001 ***
20–29	1.64 [1.59–1.68]	p < 0.001 ***
30–39	1.40 [1.37–1.44]	p < 0.001 ***
40–49	1.13 [1.10–1.16]	p < 0.001 ***
50–59	1.03 [1.00–1.05]	p < 0.05 *
60–69	1.00 [0.98–1.03]	p = 0.74
70–79	0.94 [0.92–0.96]	p < 0.001 ***
80–89 (reference)	1.0
90 +	0.95 [0.92–0.99]	p < 0.05 *
Gender
Male (reference)	1.0
Female	1.12 [1.10–1.13]	p < 0.001 ***
Social status index of the neighbourhood	1.01 [1.00–1.01] per + 1 index unit increase (range from -1.5 to 4)	p < 0.05 *
Weekend
No (reference)	1.0
Yes	1.02 [1.00–1.04]	p < 0.05 *

Variables were not adjusted to other predictors than those in the model
^*/*** Significance level was defined as p < 0.05 and marked with an asterisk (*). An even lower p-value of < 0.001 is marked with three asterisks (***)

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