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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Trends in the disposition of patients who were referred. Each year is indicated with a different type of pattern. The hospitalization rate decreased from 63.0% to 61.2%, whereas the discharge rate increased from 31.6% to 33.4%. The re-transfer and death rates were almost stationary.