Comparisons of medical utilizations and categorical diagnoses of emergency visits between the elderly with catastrophic illness certificates and those without

Table 1 The enrolled subjects aged 65 years or older selected from a one-million-subject randomly-sampled dataset in Taiwan, 2008

	Catastrophic illness group			Non-catastrophic illness group			In general (N = 96,911)
Age (years)	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
65–69	1,173	1,477	2,650	13,296	15,223	28,519	14,469	16,700
70–74	1,212	1,363	2,575	10,148	12,412	22,560	11,360	13,775
75–79	1,161	1,073	2,234	9,043	8,996	18,039	10,204	10,069
80–84	797	692	1,489	5,929	5,669	11,598	6,726	6,361
80 or more	435	459	894	2,863	3,490	6,353	3,298	3,949
Total	4,778	5,064	9,842	41,279	45,790	80,769	46,057	50,854

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