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

Table 3

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.

	Specialty of incoming facility											Total	Percentage of; switches between the same specialties
	Family medicine	Internal medicine	Pediatrics	Obstetrics and gynecology	Orthopedics	Otolaryngology	Ophthalmology	Dermatology	Dentistry	Traditional Chinese medicine	Other
Specialty of outgoing facility
Family medicine	6,608	4,053	1,488	1,710	1,846	2,692	5,906	2,471	5,290	5,696	7,067	44,827	14.7%
Internal medicine	4,470	3,201	880	1,460	1,308	2,125	4,560	2,137	3,666	4,202	5,746	33,755	9.5%
Pediatrics	1,155	748	2,141	558	322	1,309	2,456	1,226	2,950	1,542	1,578	15,985	13.4%
Obstetrics and gynecology	1,647	1,317	579	1,750	398	1,275	1,089	1,293	1,650	2,530	1,746	15,274	11.5%
Orthopedics	2,112	1,465	367	465	722	1,004	1,516	816	1,205	1,996	2,254	13,922	5.2%
Otolaryngology	2,580	1,951	1,128	1,263	824	1,492	4,592	2,642	4,403	2,995	3,519	27,389	5.4%
Ophthalmology	5,422	3,476	2,367	919	1,043	3,978	1,230	2,789	4,095	4,426	4,017	33,762	3.6%
Dermatology	2,187	1,671	1,042	1,079	526	2,196	2,733	770	2,664	3,084	2,489	20,441	3.8%
Dentistry	5,284	3,085	2,626	1,469	914	3,858	3,785	2,720	2,160	4,982	3,836	34,719	6.2%
Traditional Chinese medicine	4,468	2,963	1,424	1,691	1,162	2,320	3,406	2,505	4,299	1,839	4,112	30,189	6.1%
Other	9,591	7,021	2,073	2,357	2,681	5,287	6,499	4,053	6,849	8,810	11,776	66,997
Total	45,524	30,951	16,115	14,721	11,746	27,536	37,772	23,422	39,231	42,102	48,140	337,260	6.5%