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68 National Medical Care Statistics 2014 Figure 7.4.2: Top 10 reasons ¦ or encounter in private clinics in 2014 § Comprise multiple ICPC-2 codes see Appendix 4 REFERENCES 1. Sivasampu S, Yvonne Lim, Norazida AR, Hwong WY, Goh PP, Hisham AN, editors. National Medical Care Statistics NMCS 2012. Kuala Lumpur Malaysia: National Clinical Research Centre MY, National Healthcare Statistics Initiative; 2014. 95 p. Report No.: NCRCHSU2013.3. Grant No.: NMRR-09-842-4718. Supported by the Ministry of Health Malaysia. 2. Institute for Public Health IPH. National Health and Morbidity Survey 2011 NHMS 2011. ¨ ol. 2: Non Communicable Diseases; 2011. 188 p. Report No.: MOHSIKU04.12TR. Grant No.: NMRR- 10-757-6837. Supported by the Ministry of Health Malaysia.

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26.5 © ª «¬ 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 ­®¯° ± ²³´µ¶·¸ ¹ º¶ ® » ®¯¼ ¶ ½ ®µ µ¹ Diarrhoea ¾ ® ¿ÀÁ ¸ ³² ¶  ¼²³®  ¹ º à ± ¶ ²  ¶ À ¸ ¿ ³ À ½ ¯®² » ¿ ³ Ä ® ¸ ¯ Å µ®²¹ Æ ´ » ³ · ¿ À ®µ ± ® ¿ À ¹ Ç Å ¸ ¯ Å µ³ ¸ ° ¶ µ ¶  ®µ ¸ à ·±  ³ · Á ¯³ ·± µ® ¿À  ¸ ¹ Runny noserhinorrhoea Cough Fever Rate per 100 encounters CHAPTER eight Diagnoses 70 National Medical Care Statistics 2014 CHAPTER : DIAGNOSES In this chapter, diagnoses reported by primary care providers at the time of visit are presented and discussed. During an encounter, a patient might present with an existing or new problems, and the healthcare provider would record the problems as symptoms or diagnoses. Healthcare providers could record more than one diagnosis for each encounter. Note that only diagnoses managed and reported for each encounter were captured. È .1 É Ê Ë BER OF DIAGNOSES PER ENCO Ê NTER A total of 436,743 diagnoses were recorded in NMCS 2014, at a rate of 134.0 diagnoses per 100 encounters. Distributions of recorded diagnoses according to sectors were as follows: • Public clinics: 154.9 diagnoses per 100 encounters • Private clinics: 119.9 diagnoses per 100 encounters Figure 8.1.1 presents the number of diagnoses per visit by sectors in 2014. • More than three-quarters 83.5 of patients who presented to private clinics had a single diagnosis per visit, compared with 63.0 of their counterparts in public clinics. Figur Ì È Í

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