Pre-Emergency-Department Care-Seeking Patterns Are Associated with the Severity of Presenting Condition for Emergency Department Visit and Subsequent Adverse Events: A Timeframe Episode Analysis

• Chien-Lung Chan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chien-Lung Chan, Wender Lin

  Affiliation Department of Information Management and Innovation Center for Big Data and Digital Convergence, Yuan Ze University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

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• Wender Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chien-Lung Chan, Wender Lin

  Affiliation Department of Health Care Administration, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Nan-Ping Yang,

  Affiliations Community Health Research Center & Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Keelung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Keelung, Taiwan

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• K. Robert Lai,

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Innovation Center for Big Data and Digital Convergence, Yuan Ze University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

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• Hsin-Tsung Huang

  * E-mail: huang.oct10@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Information Management and Innovation Center for Big Data and Digital Convergence, Yuan Ze University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, Medical Affairs Division, National Health Insurance Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taipei, Taiwan

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