Research Article
Closing the Equity Gap of Access to Emergency Departments of Private Hospitals in Thailand
Table 1
Summary of patient demographics requested for the preauthorization of access to ED service in the first 72 hours without copayment (n = 20,206).
| Characteristics | No. | () |
| Region | | | Bangkok | 10,820 | (53.56) | Middle | 2,196 | (10.88) | East | 1,866 | (9.24) | West | 1,743 | (8.63) | North East | 1,734 | (8.58) | North | 1,090 | (5.40) | South | 751 | (3.72) | Total | 20,200 | (100) | Health insurance status | | | UCS | 11,121 | (56.21) | CSMBS | 5,444 | (27.52) | SSS | 2,847 | (14.39) | Others | 373 | (1.89) | Total | 19,785 | (100) | Age (years), mean (SD) | 54.55 | (24.20) | Gender | | | Male | 10,311 | (51.49) | Female | 9,713 | (48.51) | Total | 20,024 | (100) |
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