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Table 2 Top 10 most common diagnoses of the cases requesting transfer arrangements

From: Operation of national coordinating service for interhospital transfer from emergency departments: experience and implications from Korea

Ranking

Diagnostic codea

Diagnosis

Number of cases (%)

1

K65

Peritonitis

669 (6.54)

2

S06

Intracranial injury

583 (5.70)

3

I60

Subarachnoid hemorrhage

445 (4.35)

4

I71

Aortic aneurysm and dissection

368 (3.60)

5

I21

Acute myocardial infarction

326 (3.19)

6

I61

Intracerebral hemorrhage

321 (3.14)

7

I62

Other nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage

294(2.88)

8

J18

Pneumonia, organism unspecified

266 (2.60)

9

I46

Cardiac arrest

263 (2.57)

10

R57

Shock, not elsewhere classified

245 (2.40)

  1. aKorean Classification of Diseases, seventh revision (KCD-7), which is a modified version of the International Classification of Diseases, the tenth revision (ICD-10)