Characteristics | ACS | RCS | SIS | Total sample population | ||||
n=10 447 | % | n=9689 | % | n=7328 | % | n=1 438 178 | % | |
Age (years) | ||||||||
<20 | 21 | 0.20 | 80 | 0.83 | 70 | 0.96 | 313 646 | 21.81 |
20~29 | 91 | 0.87 | 263 | 2.71 | 278 | 3.79 | 180 111 | 12.52 |
30~39 | 337 | 3.23 | 679 | 7.01 | 662 | 9.03 | 217 735 | 15.14 |
40~49 | 1838 | 17.59 | 1925 | 19.87 | 1731 | 23.62 | 242 157 | 16.84 |
50~59 | 3761 | 36.00 | 3186 | 32.88 | 2508 | 34.22 | 228 492 | 15.89 |
60~69 | 2465 | 23.60 | 2160 | 22.29 | 1304 | 17.79 | 131 499 | 9.14 |
≥70 | 1934 | 18.51 | 1396 | 14.41 | 775 | 10.58 | 124 538 | 8.66 |
Sex | ||||||||
Male | 4178 | 39.99 | 4348 | 44.88 | 3471 | 47.37 | 699 035 | 48.61 |
Female | 6269 | 60.01 | 5341 | 55.12 | 3857 | 52.63 | 739 143 | 51.39 |
Visit type | ||||||||
Inpatient | 464 | 4.44 | 1432 | 14.78 | 695 | 9.48 | 193 184 | 13.43 |
Outpatient | 10 336 | 98.94 | 9387 | 96.88 | 7135 | 97.37 | 1 433 858 | 99.70 |
Insurance type | ||||||||
National Health Insurance | 9984 | 95.57 | 9336 | 96.36 | 7092 | 96.78 | 1 398 282 | 97.23 |
Medicaid | 470 | 4.50 | 356 | 3.67 | 235 | 3.21 | 44 652 | 3.11 |
Veteran healthcare | 9 | 0.09 | 32 | 0.33 | 18 | 0.25 | 3260 | 0.23 |
Medical institution | ||||||||
Clinic | 7919 | 75.80 | 5522 | 56.99 | 3522 | 48.06 | 1 316 958 | 91.57 |
Hospital | 2243 | 21.47 | 2786 | 28.75 | 3020 | 41.21 | 406 611 | 28.27 |
General hospital | 741 | 7.09 | 1473 | 15.20 | 945 | 12.90 | 375 571 | 26.11 |
Tertiary hospital | 138 | 1.32 | 648 | 6.69 | 157 | 2.14 | 207 937 | 14.46 |
Long-term care hospital | 87 | 0.83 | 31 | 0.32 | 21 | 0.29 | 27 437 | 1.91 |
Public health centre | 41 | 0.39 | 18 | 0.19 | 4 | 0.05 | 81 007 | 5.63 |
Medical specialty | ||||||||
Orthopaedic surgery | 8762 | 83.87 | 8670 | 89.48 | 6737 | 91.94 | 584 569 | 40.65 |
Anaesthesiology | 750 | 7.18 | 560 | 5.78 | 334 | 4.56 | 58 270 | 4.05 |
Neurosurgery | 490 | 4.69 | 261 | 2.69 | 142 | 1.94 | 107 990 | 7.51 |
Rehabilitation medicine | 483 | 4.62 | 374 | 3.86 | 181 | 2.47 | 33 104 | 2.30 |
General surgery | 352 | 3.37 | 100 | 1.03 | 65 | 0.89 | 222 058 | 15.44 |
Internal medicine | 240 | 2.30 | 81 | 0.84 | 42 | 0.57 | 966 320 | 67.19 |
Family medicine | 192 | 1.84 | 73 | 0.75 | 53 | 0.72 | 152 569 | 10.61 |
Other* | 95 | 0.91 | 24 | 0.25 | 13 | 0.18 | 875 225 | 60.86 |
General physician | 33 | 0.32 | 9 | 0.09 | 1 | 0.01 | 82 475 | 5.73 |
*Includes neurology, radiology, emergency medicine, occupational and environmental medicine, neuropsychiatry, paediatrics, thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, and urology.
ACS, adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder; RCS, rotator cuff syndrome; SIS, shoulder impingement syndrome.