Table 6 Number of patients with undiagnosed diseases per university hospital department
Survey-2 | Department | Percentage of doctors needing IRUD | Number of participating doctors (persons) | Number of patients who would be referred to IRUD per doctor needing IRUD (cases/person) | Total number of doctors per department (persons) | Number of patients with undiagnosed diseases in Japan who would be referred to IRUD (cases) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pediatrics/pediatric surgery | Pediatrics | 85.6% | 125 | 2.1 | 1272 | 2306 |
Pediatric surgery | 73.9% | 23 | 0.3 | 409 | 82 | |
Other departments | Neurology | 100.0% | 47 | 1.5 | 741 | 1123 |
General internal/family medicine | 100.0% | 29 | 0.7 | 625 | 453 | |
Dermatology | 96.4% | 55 | 0.6 | 786 | 425 | |
Rheumatology | 93.5% | 46 | 0.7 | 786 | 523 | |
Otorhinolaryngology | 90.5% | 21 | 0.8 | 1079 | 771 | |
Gastroenterology | 85.0% | 60 | 0.3 | 1532 | 403 | |
Pulmonology | 84.1% | 44 | 0.4 | 812 | 258 | |
Orthopedics | 80.0% | 45 | 0.2 | 1329 | 266 | |
Hematology | 73.0% | 37 | 0.7 | 623 | 301 | |
Cardiology | 71.9% | 64 | 0.5 | 1170 | 457 | |
Diabetes and metabolism | 71.1% | 45 | 0.6 | 858 | 362 | |
Nephrology | 68.4% | 38 | 0.9 | 770 | 461 | |
Gastrointestinal surgery | 56.5% | 23 | 0.1 | 1485 | 65 | |
Others | 59.1% | 137 | 0.2 | 17,153 | 2106 |