Table 1 Health care visits for 472 older adults with Down syndrome during 11 years study period at the ten most visited clinics (total and different types of health care visits)
Total people with DS N = 472 | Total health care visits n = 3854 | Planned health care visits n = 2103 | Unplanned health care visits n = 1695 | Unknown health care visits n = 56 | Outpatient health care visits n = 2582 | Inpatient health care visits n = 1272 | |
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n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
Internal medicine | 259 (54.9) | 791 (20.5) | 157 (7.5) | 621 (36.6) | 13 (23.2) | 306 (11.9) | 485 (38.1) |
Ophthalmology | 212 (44.9) | 664 (17.2) | 618 (29.4) | 33 (1.9) | 13 (23.2) | 613 (23.7) | 51 (4.0) |
Surgery | 170 (36.0) | 484 (12.6) | 194 (9.2) | 284 (16.8) | 6 (10.7) | 285 (11.0) | 199 (15.6) |
Orthopaedic clinic | 157 (33.3) | 467 (12.1) | 274 (13.0) | 187 (11.0) | 6 (10.7) | 337 (13.1) | 130 (10.2) |
General psychiatric clinic | 50 (10.6) | 197 (5.1) | 130 (6.2) | 57 (3.4) | 10 (17.9) | 166 (6.4) | 31 (2.4) |
Ear, nose and throat clinic | 80 (16.9) | 191 (5.0) | 139 (6.6) | 50 (2.9) | 2 (3.6) | 158 (6.1) | 33 (2.6) |
Emergency department | 79 (16.7) | 168 (4.4) | 8 (0.4) | 160 (9.4) | 0 (0) | 152 (5.9) | 16 (1.3) |
Infectious diseases | 68 (14.4) | 114 (3.0) | 12 (0.6) | 102 (6.0) | 0 (0) | 18 (0.7) | 96 (7.5) |
Geriatrics and geropsychiatrics | 61 (12.9) | 158 (4.1) | 140 (6.6) | 17 (1.0) | 1 (1.8) | 136 (5.3) | 22 (1.7) |
Neurological clinic | 40 (8.5) | 93 (2.4) | 69 (3.3) | 24 (1.4) | 0 (0) | 67 (2.6) | 26 (2.0) |