Table 4 Number of patients with undiagnosed diseases in Japanese university hospitals who would be referred to IRUD
Survey-2 | Pediatrics/pediatric surgery | Other departments | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
NUH | PUH-main | PUH-branch | NUH | PUH-main | PUH-branch | |
Percentage of doctors needing IRUD | 88.0% (66/75) | 90.0% (36/40) | 66.7% (22/33) | 84.6% (237/280) | 69.4% (170/245) | 75.9% (126/166) |
Number of participating doctors (persons)a | 75 | 40 | 33 | 280 | 245 | 166 |
Number of doctors needing IRUD (persons) | 66 | 36 | 22 | 237 | 170 | 126 |
Number of patients who would be referred to IRUD per doctor needing IRUD (cases/person) | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
Total number of doctors in the relevant facilities in Japan (persons) | 692 | 581 | 408 | 12,320 | 10,474 | 6955 |
Number of patients with undiagnosed diseases in Japan who would be referred to IRUD (cases) | 1462 | 652 | 240 | 8338 | 3098 | 1797 |