... hospitals, includ-ing triage and dispatch, and how to best deal with“everyday” emergency problems is needed in Norway.The large variety of symptoms and conditions may forinstance indicate a need ... onsome of the upcoming challenges in emergency care,both in the primary and the secondary health care sys-tem, namely an increasingly older population and there-fore more pressure on the emergency ... 70% ofthe patients were brought to hospitals, 24% of themwithout being examined by a doctor beforehand. Onefourth of the patients were brought to a casualty clinic.The strengths of our study include...