Table 3. Rates of endoscopic procedures according to hospital classification based on 2017 claims data.
Medical institutions | Diagnostic EGD | Therapeutic EGD | Diagnostic colonoscopy | Therapeutic colonoscopy | ||||||||
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No. of endoscopic procedures | Bleedinga | Perforationa | No. of endoscopic procedures | Bleedinga | Perforationa | No. of endoscopic procedures | Bleedinga | Perforationa | No. of endoscopic procedures | Bleedinga | Perforationa | |
Clinics | 1,064,738 | 0.170 | 0.034 | 5,104 | 4.898 | 0.588 | 635,164 | 1.294 | 0 | 398,581 | 2.579 | 0.038 |
Hospitals | 276,591 | 0.662 | 0.051 | 1,840 | 22.283 | 6.522 | 253,392 | 0.884 | 0.036 | 135,395 | 4.010 | 0.074 |
General hospitals | 628,347 | 3.983 | 0.331 | 15,179 | 41.636 | 8.696 | 344,106 | 2.624 | 0.087 | 163,243 | 4.080 | 0.239 |
Tertiary hospitals | 444,968 | 5.715 | 0.649 | 20,440 | 31.556 | 5.577 | 175,928 | 4.746 | 2.296 | 65,145 | 7.307 | 0.553 |
Outpatient | 2,077,760 | 0.275 | 0.033 | 8,283 | 2.294 | 0.483 | 1,278,621 | 1.074 | 0.018 | 647,949 | 1.463 | 0.022 |
Inpatient | 336,884 | 14.367 | 1.419 | 34,280 | 38.623 | 7.497 | 129,960 | 10.856 | 0.523 | 114,415 | 15.426 | 0.752 |
Total | 2,414,644 | 2.241 | 0.227 | 42,563 | 31.553 | 6.132 | 1,408,509 | 1.976 | 0.065 | 762,364 | 3.559 | 0.131 |
EGD = esophagogastroduodenoscopy.
aRate per 1,000 cases.