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. 2014 Mar 4;15:21. doi: 10.1186/1472-6939-15-21

Table 1.

The comparison of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation use between the world and Taiwan

 
Case
Incidence
 
Taiwan
World
Taiwan
World
Year N N CAIR a CAIR
2000
257
1600
11.71
0.29
2001
274
1579
12.25
0.29
2002
311
1594
13.81
0.29
2003
461
1504
20.37
0.27
2004
435
1472
19.05
0.26
2005
393
1778
16.98
0.31
2006
413
1915
17.73
0.33
2007
666
1872
28.39
0.32
2008
857
1857
36.28
0.31
2009 886 2202 37.47 0.37

aCAIR denotes for “crude annual incidence rate,” which means the annual number of ECMO cases per million people registered in National Health Insurance in the year.

1. “Case” in World is equal to the total cases in the world minus the total cases in Taiwan.

2. The estimate of Taiwan population for each year was obtained by using the total number of people registered in National Health Insurance on July 1 in the year.

3. The estimate of World population for each year in this study was equal to the total number of the world population minus the total population in the least developed countries as shown in “World Population Prospects: the 2010 Revision”, and also minus the total of Taiwan population.