Table 2.
Number of Emergency Department (ED) Visits Classified by Final Diagnosis in 2020, with Corresponding Percent Changes in 2019.
| ED final diagnosis | Number of ED visits in 2019 | Number of ED visits in 2020 | Percent change | 95% confidence interval | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Upper | |||||
| Total number of patients | 2,184 | 2,013 | −7.8% | −13.5 | −1.7 | 0.013 |
| Infectious | 59 | 31 | −47.5% | −65.3 | −20.4 | 0.002 |
| Neurological | 20 | 15 | −25.0% | −61.0 | 44.3 | 0.386 |
| Cardiovascular | 986 | 949 | −3.8% | −12.5 | 5.9 | 0.430 |
| Non-COVID-19 respiratory | 102 | 73 | −28.4% | −47.2 | -2.9 | 0.030 |
| Gastrointestinal | 128 | 106 | −17.2% | −36.0 | 7.1 | 0.150 |
| Trauma | 159 | 119 | −25.2% | −41.1 | −4.9 | 0.017 |
| External causes | 368 | 389 | 5.7% | −8.2 | 21.7 | 0.441 |
| Poisoning by drugs | 162 | 160 | −1.2% | −21.1 | 23.7 | 0.914 |
| Others | 200 | 171 | −14.5% | −30.3 | 4.8 | 0.131 |
※Excluding data as of February 29, 2020