Patterns of Nonemergent Visits to Different Healthcare Facilities on the Same Day: A Nationwide Analysis in Taiwan

Table 1

Distribution of a patient’s visits to different healthcare facilities within one day in the 1,000,000-person cohort in 2010, stratified by numbers of different healthcare facilities and specialties in a day.

	Number of patient-days	Percentage
Number of different healthcare facilities visited by a patient in a day
6	6	0.0
5	17	0.0
4	320	0.1
3	7,472	2.3
2	321,258	97.6
Number of different specialties visited by a patient in a day
7	2	0.0
6	8	0.0
5	53	0.0
4	555	0.2
3	10,609	3.2
2	295,453	89.8
1	22,393	6.8