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 |
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| Age (years), mean (SD); P=.013 | 61.48 (16.86) | 61.50 (16.84) | 61.09 (17.22) | N/Aa | ||||
| Sex, n (%); P<.001 | ||||||||
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Male | 90,863 (48.4) | 85,951(48.6) | 4907 (44.9) | 5.4 | |||
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Female | 96,884 (51.6) | 90,864 (51.4) | 6020 (55.1) | 6.2 | |||
| Distance, n (%); P<.001 | ||||||||
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<20 km | 168,846 (89.9) | 159,787 (90.4) | 9059 (82.9) | 5.4 | |||
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20-50 km | 12,623 (6.7) | 11,552 (6.5) | 1071 (9.8) | 8.5 | |||
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>50 km | 5284 (2.8) | 4607 (2.6) | 677 (6.2) | 12.8 | |||
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Outlying islands | 167 (0.1) | 133 (0.1) | 34 (0.3) | 20.4 | |||
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Traveled >5 hours to reach the hospital | 332 (0.2) | 263 (0.1) | 69 (0.6) | 26.2 | |||
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Unknown | 490 (0.3) | 473 (0.3) | 17 (0.2) | 3.5 | |||
| Insurance type, n (%); P<.001 | ||||||||
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Reimbursed by the NHIb | 175,881 (93.7) | 165,021 (93.3) | 10,860 (99.4) | 6.2 | |||
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Nonreimbursed by the NHI | 11,861 (6.3) | 11,794 (6.7) | 67 (0.6) | 0.6 | |||
| Disease type, n (%); P<.001 | ||||||||
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Major chronic diseases | 107,910 (57.5) | 99,624 (56.3) | 8286 (75.8) | 7.7 | |||
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Other diseases | 79,832 (42.5) | 77,191 (43.7) | 2641 (24.2) | 3.3 | |||
| Department, n (%); P<.001 | ||||||||
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Heart center, psychiatry department, and internal medicine department | 129,504 (69.0) | 120,088 (67.9) | 9416 (86.2) | 7.3 | |||
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Other departments | 58,238 (31.0) | 56,727 (32.1) | 1511 (13.8) | 2.6 | |||
aN/A: not applicable.
bNHI: National Health Insurance.