Table 1. Characteristics of patients in long-term care hospital in Korea^a .

Level	Criteria	Cases (%)
Highest medical service	Critical patient level including comatose, mechanical ventilator, internal bleeding	10,910 (1.5)
High medical service	Very low ADL, refractory neurological disease, or pressure sore	180,167 (25.6)
Medium medical service	Patient hospitalized in general room, low ADL, or with refractory neurological disease	145,666 (20.7)
Low medical service	Patient receiving professional rehabilitation services other than the above mentioned criteria	12,722 (1.8)
Problematic behavior	Delirum, hallucination, anxiety, wandering etc.	5,617 (0.8)
Cognitive dysfunction	Cognive dysfunction clearly identified	279,630 (39.7)
Physical deterioration	Cases other than the abov ementioned criteria	69,743 (9.9)
Total		704,475 (100.0)

^aReport by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service on the seventh evaluation of adequacy of inpatient payment in long-term care hospitals in 2018.

ADL, activities of daily living.