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)