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The questionnaire was integrated into the electronic patient registration system, popping up after every third video contact. This setup automatically linked patient register data, including age and sex, with the questionnaire data.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Setting<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study was conducted from 5 September 2022 to 21 December 2022 at the out-of-hours primary care service in the Central Denmark Region.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Participants<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>649 volunteer GPs who answered 2452 questionnaires.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Main outcome measures<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Reasons for encounter in video contacts registered with codes from International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC) coding system, V.2 (ICPC-2).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>GPs doing telephone triage in out-of-hours primary care used video contacts for a broad range of ICPC-2 codes within few ICPC-2 chapters. 83% of all reasons for encounter were due to symptoms in chapters S \u2018Skin\u2019 (34.5%), R \u2018Respiratory\u2019 (21.8%), A \u2018General and unspecified\u2019 (14.7%) and L \u2018Musculoskeletal\u2019 (12.0%) in the ICPC-2 classification system. Video contacts concerning skin and musculoskeletal symptoms were more frequent among older children and adults compared with young children. 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