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. 2022 Jan 6;37(4):e24. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2022.37.e24

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
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.