Table 1 General statistics of the dataset used for analysis
From: Information content as a health system screening tool for rare diseases
Total | Non-RD | RD | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Encounter | 2+ Encounters | Initial | Observed | Diagnosis NOT first encounter | |||
Sex | |||||||
Female | 730,165 | 347,461 | 352,823 | 29,881 | 8325 | 4576 | |
Male | 544,022 | 270,977 | 245,850 | 27,195 | 7853 | 4067 | |
Unknown | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Age at first encounter | |||||||
Child | 329,310 | 151,420 | 163,194 | 14,696 | 3692 | 1963 | |
Adolescent | 64,286 | 35,777 | 25,412 | 3097 | 896 | 444 | |
Young adult | 59,114 | 36,031 | 20,855 | 2228 | 543 | 219 | |
Adult | 608,174 | 312,062 | 272,415 | 23,697 | 6623 | 3453 | |
Older adult | 210,235 | 83,148 | 113,729 | 13,358 | 4424 | 2564 | |
N/A | 3071 | 2 | 3068 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Ethnicity | |||||||
Chinese | 829,353 | 396,734 | 392,533 | 40,086 | 11,619 | 6162 | |
Malay | 154,081 | 65,108 | 82,090 | 6883 | 2104 | 1227 | |
Indian | 136,913 | 66,476 | 65,642 | 4795 | 1238 | 692 | |
Other | 153,843 | 90,122 | 58,408 | 5313 | 1217 | 562 | |
Encounters | |||||||
Total | 3,021,129 | 618,440 | 2,142,749 | 259,940 | 106,888 | 70,890 | |
Mean | 2.37 | – | 3.58 | 4.55 | 6.60 | 8.20 | |
Median | 2.00 | – | 3.00 | 3.00 | 5.00 | 7.00 | |
