Table 4.

Efficiency and total cost of internal department, gastroenterology department, and respiratory department

	Internal Department		Gastroenterology Department		Respiratory Department
	AI-assisted group	Conventional group	AI-assisted group	Conventional group	AI-assisted group	Conventional group
Visits (N)	6028	5538	46	379	10	254
Waiting time (h)	0.38 (0.20,1.33)	2.16 (0.82,3.58) *	0.54 (0.17,1.44)	1.03 (0.50,1.76) *	0.33 (0.16,2.02)	1.07 (0.58,1.76) *
Total cost (CNY)	334.87 (243.92,434.30)	357.04 (245.16,474.59) *	405.53 (317.49,680.47)	693.38 (327.37,1192.00)	325.80 (283.74,929.87)	438.48 (286.41,696.67) *

After testing, all the data presented non-normal distribution. The median (inter-quartile range) was used to describe the centralized and discrete trend of the data

* P < 0.05