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Table 1 Number of clinics and their patients, proportion of pharmacy costs, and correlation between total costs including and excluding pharmacy costs by specialty

From: Do differences in profiling criteria bias performance measurements? Economic profiling of medical clinics under the Korea National Health Insurance program: An observational study using claims data

Specialty

No. of clinics

No. of

patients

% of total cost

represented by pharmacy cost

(mean ± sd)

Correlation between costs including and excluding pharmacy costs1)

General clinics

4,695

3,807,917

32.04 ± 23.84

0.99

Internal medicine

3,611

4,852,887

38.23 ± 25.23

0.87

Pediatrics

2,128

2,333,778

26.18 ± 19.80

0.99

Otorhinolaryngology

1,737

2,561,254

24.10 ± 15.40

0.99

Orthopedic surgery

1,725

1,585,045

20.23 ± 21.56

0.99

Obstetrics & gynecology

1,604

873,524

21.09 ± 20.82

0.98

Ophthalmology

1,207

1,515,235

23.38 ± 17.31

0.97

General surgery

1,193

794,618

27.65 ± 23.32

0.97

Family medicine

1,055

1,009,541

34.11 ± 23.20

0.95

Urology

888

581,503

30.82 ± 23.46

0.90

Dermatology

803

779,600

29.02 ± 21.96

0.93

Psychiatry

708

308,835

19.00 ± 27.05

0.99

Anesthesiology

588

296,653

28.90 ± 25.95

0.99

Neurosurgery

362

298,801

27.49 ± 25.29

0.99

Rehabilitation medicine

276

158,182

27.17 ± 26.74

0.99

Diagnostic radiology

244

156,622

10.61 ± 21.37

0.96

Neurology

132

104,304

41.56 ± 28.60

0.92

Thoracic surgery

82

64,099

31.97 ± 23.83

0.97

Plastic surgery

74

6,251

13.22 ± 20.15

0.98

Total

23,112

22,088,649

29.76 ± 23.80

0.95

  1. 1) Pearson's correlation coefficient