Table 2. The Ratios of Monthly Emergency Room Visits in 2005 to the Average Visits of Corresponding Months in 2014 and 2016 according to Disease Severity (%).
Month | High-acuity disease | Low-acuity disease | ||||||||||||||
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Myocardial infarction | Cardiac arrest | Ischemic stroke | Hemorrhagic stroke | AGE | APT | AOM | URI | |||||||||
% | p value* | % | p value* | % | p value* | % | p value* | % | p value* | % | p value* | % | p value* | % | p value* | |
May | 98.2 | 0.463 | 100.2 | 0.992 | 96.2 | 0.019 | 101.1 | 0.732 | 99.7 | 0.411 | 92.0 | <0.001 | 90.8 | <0.001 | 95.7 | <0.001 |
June† | 86.0 | <0.001 | 103.5 | 0.401 | 83.4 | <0.001 | 102.4 | 0.443 | 66.2 | <0.001 | 60.1 | <0.001 | 47.0 | <0.001 | 54.8 | <0.001 |
July† | 94.6 | 0.050 | 99.2 | 0.802 | 95.7 | 0.011 | 101.0 | 0.786 | 83.3 | <0.001 | 60.5 | <0.001 | 67.2 | <0.001 | 60.4 | <0.001 |
August | 96.9 | 0.267 | 95.4 | 0.209 | 98.3 | 0.309 | 98.3 | 0.553 | 99.1 | 0.097 | 101.4 | 0.606 | 101.2 | 0.728 | 100.9 | 0.290 |
AGE, acute gastroenteritis; APT, acute pharyngotonsillitis; AOM, acute otitis media; URI, upper respiratory infection.
*p value from chi-square test; †Values during Middle East respiratory syndrome epidemic period (June to July).