Five family medicine residents reviewed charts which were practiced by a family physician from September 1989 to August 1990.
After classifying the collected data in reference to ICPC coding system, following results were obtained.
1. The total number of patients were 3,485 and 1,596 were male, 1,889 were female.
2. The age distribution of patients was 0 through 96 years old. The largest was the 0 to 9 year old goup by 34.8%, the smallest was above 90 year old group by 0.1%, the pediatric group consisted of 44.2% and geriatric group consisted of 3.3%.
3. The total number of Reason For Encounter(RFE) was 4668, the average RFE per patients was 1.4 per patients and the kind of RFEs was 265. Among them cough, fever, generalized abdominal pain, symptoms/complains of throat and U.R.I ranked most common.
4. The total number of diagnoses was 4141, the average number of diagnoses was 1.2 per patient. Among them U.R.I., acute bronchitis/bronchiolitis, disod. stomach function, other resumed infection and irritable bowel symdrome ranked most common.
5. According to division of diagnosis by chapter, respiratory(44.4%), digestive(26.9%), general(5.8%) and musculoskeletal(3.8%) were ranked.
6. The number of diagnostic tests per patient was 0.38. Among the top 10 include 91.5% and chest X-ray, Urinalysis, LFT, HBsAg/anti-HBs, CBC were 18.0%, 15.1%, 13.5%, 11.6%, 9.9% respectively.
7. 39 cases were referred to Internal medicine, General Surgery, Urology, Pediatrics 8, 7, 5, 4 respectively.