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. 2022 Aug 12;24(8):e40288. doi: 10.2196/40288

Table 2.

Characteristics of all visits.

Characteristics Total visits (N=187,742) In-person visits (n=176,815) Virtual visits (n=10,927) Virtual visit rate (%)=
virtual visits/total visits
Age (years), mean (SD); P=.013 61.48 (16.86) 61.50 (16.84) 61.09 (17.22) N/Aa
Sex, n (%); P<.001

Male 90,863 (48.4) 85,951(48.6) 4907 (44.9) 5.4

Female 96,884 (51.6) 90,864 (51.4) 6020 (55.1) 6.2
Distance, n (%); P<.001

<20 km 168,846 (89.9) 159,787 (90.4) 9059 (82.9) 5.4

20-50 km 12,623 (6.7) 11,552 (6.5) 1071 (9.8) 8.5

>50 km 5284 (2.8) 4607 (2.6) 677 (6.2) 12.8

Outlying islands 167 (0.1) 133 (0.1) 34 (0.3) 20.4

Traveled >5 hours to reach the hospital 332 (0.2) 263 (0.1) 69 (0.6) 26.2

Unknown 490 (0.3) 473 (0.3) 17 (0.2) 3.5
Insurance type, n (%); P<.001

Reimbursed by the NHIb 175,881 (93.7) 165,021 (93.3) 10,860 (99.4) 6.2

Nonreimbursed by the NHI 11,861 (6.3) 11,794 (6.7) 67 (0.6) 0.6
Disease type, n (%); P<.001

Major chronic diseases 107,910 (57.5) 99,624 (56.3) 8286 (75.8) 7.7

Other diseases 79,832 (42.5) 77,191 (43.7) 2641 (24.2) 3.3
Department, n (%); P<.001

Heart center, psychiatry department, and internal medicine department 129,504 (69.0) 120,088 (67.9) 9416 (86.2) 7.3

Other departments 58,238 (31.0) 56,727 (32.1) 1511 (13.8) 2.6

aN/A: not applicable.

bNHI: National Health Insurance.