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

Table 2 The distributions of catastrophic illnesses ^a in the studied subjects based on the official registered system in Taiwan

(Category) Disease	No.^b
(1)Cancer	6,075
(2&3) Homological abnormality (coagulopathy, anemia)	15
Renal failure	9,61
(4) Generalized autoimmune diseases	617
(6) Chronic mental disorders	1,572
(7) Congenital metabolic disorders	4
(8) Major organs abnormality	56
(9) Massive burns	9
(10) Major organs transplantation	21
(11) Complicated nervous, musculoskeletal disorders	5
(12) Injury severity score more than 16	125
(13) Respiratory failure	277
(14) Un-corrected mal-nutrition status	5
(16) Myasthenia gravis	31
(18) Spinal cord injuries	73
(19) Occupational diseases	251
(20) Cerebro-vascular diseases (acute stage)	5
(21) Multiple sclerosis	1
(24) Leprosy	16
(25) Complicated liver cirrhosis	87
(27) Toxic effect of arsenic and its compounds	6
(29) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease	5

^a: The other catastrophic illnesses not showed in this tables were: (5) persisted autoimmune disorders, (15) persisted complications due to decompression sickness or air embolism, (17) congenital immune deficiency, (22) congenital muscular dystrophy, (23) congenital anomalies integument, (26) co-morbidity due to premature birth, (28) motor neuron disease and (30) other rare diseases.
^b: total 10,217 cases.

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