Characteristics and related factors of emergency department visits, readmission, and hospital transfers of inpatients under a DRG-based payment system: A nationwide cohort study

• Pei-Fang Huang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Health Services Administration, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C, Department of Superintendent, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C

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• Pei-Tseng Kung ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pei-Tseng Kung, Wen-Chen Tsai

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Healthcare Administration, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C, Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C

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• Wen-Yu Chou,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Health Services Administration, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C

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• Wen-Chen Tsai

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pei-Tseng Kung, Wen-Chen Tsai

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wtsai@mail.cmu.edu.tw

  Affiliation Department of Health Services Administration, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9684-0789

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