Disease burden and related medical costs of rotavirus infections in Taiwan

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Case numbers of acute gastroenteritis with various ICD-9-CM codes in children in Taiwan, 2001^a.

Sectors	Age (years old)	Case numbers of various acute gastroenteritis associated ICD-9-CM^b											%^d
		001	002	003	004	005	007	008^c	009	558.9	787.91	Total
Outpatient	<5	500	1,000	40,000	500	1,000	500	34,500	540,000	1,085,500	500	1,704,000	62.0
	5–16	0	0	20,500	0	5,000	0	24,000	296,500	698,000	2,500	1,046,500	38.0
	0–16	500	1,000	60,500	500	6,000	500	58,500	836,500	1,783,500	3,000	2,750,500
Inpatient	<5	0	20	4,320	100	40	0	8,180	8,220	45360	20	66,260	83.6
	5–16	0	0	440	200	80	0	880	1280	10100	0	12,980	16.4
	0–16	0	20	4,760	300	120	0	9060	9500	55460	20	79,240
Total	<5	500	1,020	44,320	600	1040	500	42680	548220	1,130,860	520	1,770,260	62.6
	5–16	0	0	20,940	200	5080	0	24880	297,780	708100	2500	1,059,480	37.4
	0–16	500	1,020	65,260	800	6,120	500	67,560	846,000	1,838,960	3,020	2,829,740

^a Extrapolated from the Bureau of National Health Insurance 2001 sampling database in Taiwan (see Methods for details).
^b ICD-9-CM: International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision, Clinical Modification. 001, cholera; 002, typhoid and paratyphoid fever; 003, salmonellosis [excluding 003.2 (localized Salmonella infections)]; 004, shigellosis; 005, other food poisoning (bacterial); 007, other protozoan intestinal diseases; 008, intestinal infections caused by other organisms; 009, ill-defined intestinal infections; 558.9, other and unspecified noninfectious gastroenteritis and colitis; 787.91, diarrhoea. There were no cases of 006 (amoebiasis) reported.
^c Including 320 cases of ICD-9-CM 008.61, rotavirus.
^d Percentage of all 0–16 years old cases.

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