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Table 4 Efficiency and total cost of internal department, gastroenterology department, and respiratory department

From: Artificial intelligence-assisted reduction in patients’ waiting time for outpatient process: a retrospective cohort study

 

Internal Department

Gastroenterology Department

Respiratory Department

AI-assisted group

Conventional group

AI-assisted group

Conventional group

AI-assisted group

Conventional group

Visits (N)

6028

5538

46

379

10

254

Waiting time (h)

0.38 (0.20,1.33)

2.16 (0.82,3.58) *

0.54 (0.17,1.44)

1.03 (0.50,1.76) *

0.33 (0.16,2.02)

1.07 (0.58,1.76) *

Total cost (CNY)

334.87 (243.92,434.30)

357.04 (245.16,474.59) *

405.53 (317.49,680.47)

693.38 (327.37,1192.00)

325.80 (283.74,929.87)

438.48 (286.41,696.67) *

  1. After testing, all the data presented non-normal distribution. The median (inter-quartile range) was used to describe the centralized and discrete trend of the data
  2. * P < 0.05