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. 2016 Jun 6;24(e1):e2–e8. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocw078

Table 2.

Breakdown of the number of inpatient and outpatient procedure notes by specialty of provider

Specialty IP/ED OP Unknown Total
Emergency Medicine 8280 6 8286
Dermatology 259 4459 2 4720
Orthopedic Surgery 3913 563 4476
Ophthalmology 87 4023 4 4114
Internal Medicine 3338 423 3761
General Surgery 2498 1018 3516
Obstetrics and Gynecology 1553 1487 3040
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 597 2220 2817
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 23 1884 1907
Urology 164 1437 1 1602
Plastic Surgery 1189 138 1327
Family Medicine 250 841 1091
Otorhinolaryngology 338 471 3 812
Pediatrics 678 4 682
Hematology and Oncology 364 237 601
Nephrology 483 2 485
Pathology 76 340 416
Neurology 327 78 405
Cardiology 327 8 1 336
Neurological Surgery 318 2 320
Pulmonary Diseases 223 1 224
Anesthesiology 174 12 38 224
Rheumatology 51 90 141
Podiatry 105 16 121
Gastroenterology 74 14 1 89
Critical Care Surgery 56 56
Clinical Neurophysiology 35 15 50
Hematology 13 28 41
Neurocritical Care 31 31
Oncology Surgery 5 23 28
Vascular Surgery 1 10 11 22
Psychiatry 15 2 17
Endocrinology 11 11
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology 9 9
Allergy and Immunology 1 5 6
Hospice and Palliative Medicine 1 1
Totals 25 866 19 858 50 45 774

The total number of procedures on this table is less than the total number of procedures in Table 1 due to a tiny proportion of incorrectly documented specialties.