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

Table 4

Distribution of a patient’s switches (𝑛=337,260) between different healthcare facilities within one day in the 1,000,000-person cohort in 2010, stratified by specialty principal diagnosis∗.

		Diagnosis at incoming facility																		Total	Percentage of switches with; the same diagnoses
	Ch01	Ch02	Ch03	Ch04	Ch05	Ch06	Ch07	Ch08	Ch09	Ch10	Ch11	Ch12	Ch13	Ch14	Ch15	Ch16	Ch17	V	Unknown
Diagnosis at outgoing facility
Ch01	787	91	192	14	226	1,240	338	1,769	2,015	477	11	599	722	4	1	650	461	48	0	9,645	8.2%
Ch02	169	801	141	18	187	650	283	1,007	1,182	404	5	418	500	4	1	496	279	50	0	6,595	12.1%
Ch03	309	174	725	8	397	2,463	610	1,806	2,239	650	15	945	1,541	8	1	902	704	92	0	13,589	5.3%
Ch04	18	13	16	23	21	76	25	81	144	65	4	57	57	0	2	58	30	6	0	696	3.3%
Ch05	324	119	298	13	1,444	1,293	710	2,349	2,116	864	14	827	1,092	12	0	1,438	582	71	0	13,566	10.6%
Ch06	1,214	350	1,070	59	954	4,041	2,190	9,057	7,314	1,646	27	3,492	3,397	41	1	3,167	1,726	151	0	39,897	10.1%
Ch07	581	248	545	25	629	3,264	1,592	2,624	3,337	863	9	1,314	2,491	29	0	1,598	1,042	144	0	20,335	7.8%
Ch08	1,863	504	988	58	1,591	9,432	1,826	10,393	12,266	2,664	53	4,560	3,382	91	11	3,587	2,940	297	1	56,507	18.4%
Ch09	1,977	647	1,114	95	1,509	7,141	2,220	11,881	11,148	3,278	88	4,995	4,361	61	9	4,524	2,733	273	0	58,054	19.2%
Ch10	550	298	456	53	635	2,020	772	3,090	3,697	2,763	158	1,778	1,551	12	6	1,682	843	129	0	20,493	13.5%
Ch11	18	4	12	3	8	18	2	52	81	145	233	29	16	1	5	79	13	26	0	745	31.3%
Ch12	529	247	464	41	609	3,328	854	4,081	4,264	1,531	31	2,961	1,570	21	4	1,478	1,152	121	0	23,286	12.7%
Ch13	719	314	915	40	857	3,911	1,886	3,903	4,798	1,385	12	1,759	5,249	39	2	2,105	2,064	174	0	30,132	17.4%
Ch14	14	11	9	0	12	69	26	142	103	19	1	44	47	77	3	46	30	5	0	658	11.7%
Ch15	1	1	0	0	1	4	1	20	6	7	3	4	1	0	4	8	3	7	0	71	5.6%
Ch16	666	324	472	45	1,118	3,201	1,172	3,346	4,445	1,363	72	1,458	1,806	16	6	2,803	1,079	137	0	23,529	11.9%
Ch17	411	133	391	32	458	1,590	777	2,453	2,510	684	20	1,224	1,821	13	0	1,091	3,255	97	0	16,960	19.2%
V	83	41	68	3	79	216	133	347	436	188	34	192	248	7	19	211	171	25	0	2,501	1.0%
Unknown	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	10,233	4,320	7,876	530	10,735	43,957	15,417	58,402	62,101	18,996	790	26,656	29,852	436	75	25,923	19,107	1,853	1	337,260	14.3%

∗Details of ICD-9-CM chapters in Table 5.