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Table 1 Reason for attendance under 1 years old infants

From: Comparison of two European paediatric emergency departments: does primary care organisation influence emergency attendance?

 

Cambridge

Trieste

p

Fever

900 (28.6%)

563 (26.1%)

0.05

Breathing difficulties

644 (20.4%)

345 (16%)

<0.01

Gastrointestinal symptoms

390 (12.4%)

214 (9.9%)

<0.005

Febrile rash

193 (6.1%)

79 (3.6%)

<0.001

Febrile seizure

15 (0.47%)

6 (0.27%)

ns

Trauma

251 (7.9%)

202 (9.3%)

ns

Total attendance under 1 year old

3144

2149

 
  1. In brackets: percentage of specific symptom out of total attendance. ns means not statistically significative