Table 5 Disease classification of patients by region (2016)
From: Consultation-liaison psychiatry in Japan: a nationwide retrospective observational study
Variables | Hokkaido | Tohoku | Kanto | Chubu | Kinki | Chugoku | Shikoku | Kyushu-Okinawa | p value | Cramer’s V |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | 939 | 641 | 6138 | 1512 | 4561 | 774 | 411 | 2088 | Â | Â |
Disease classification |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | < 0.001 | 0.078 |
1. Certain infectious and parasitic diseases | 33 (3.5) | 18 (2.8) | 230 (3.7) | 46 (3.0) | 157 (3.4) | 16 (2.1) | 10 (2.4) | 70 (3.4) | Â | Â |
2. Neoplasms | 240 (25.6) | 104 (16.2) | 1393 (22.7) | 302 (20.0) | 1060 (23.2) | 234 (30.2) | 59 (4.4) | 514 (24.6) | Â | Â |
3. Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism | 19 (2.0) | 9 (1.4) | 84 (1.4) | 15 (1.0) | 68 (1.5) | 7 (0.9) | 4 (1.0) | 20 (1.0) | Â | Â |
4. Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases | 30 (3.2) | 18 (2.8) | 216 (3.5) | 59 (3.9) | 160 (3.5) | 17 (2.2) | 12 (2.9) | 84 (4.0) | Â | Â |
5. Mental and behavioral disorders | 13 (1.4) | 11 (1.7) | 107 (1.7) | 35 (2.3) | 72 (1.6) | 23 (3.0) | 8 (1.9) | 59 (2.8) | Â | Â |
6. Diseases of the nervous system | 44 (4.7) | 13 (2.0) | 238 (3.9) | 52 (3.4) | 133 (2.9) | 34 (4.4) | 12 (2.9) | 83 (4.0) | Â | Â |
7. Diseases of the eye and adnexa | 10 (1.1) | 3 (0.5) | 20 (0.3) | 14 (0.9) | 8 (0.2) | 3 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) | 13 (0.6) | Â | Â |
8. Diseases of the ear and mastoid process | 2 (0.2) | 3 (0.5) | 26 (0.4) | 3 (0.2) | 2 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (0.1) | Â | Â |
9. Diseases of the circulatory system | 191 (20.3) | 125 (19.5) | 1219 (19.9) | 230 (15.2) | 710 (15.6) | 119 (15.4) | 67 (16.3) | 190 (9.1) | Â | Â |
10. Diseases of the respiratory system | 58 (6.2) | 72 (11.2) | 502 (8.2) | 185 (12.2) | 426 (9.3) | 59 (7.6) | 78 (19.0) | 162 (7.8) | Â | Â |
11. Diseases of the digestive system | 72 (7.7) | 70 (10.9) | 557 (9.1) | 147 (9.7) | 480 (10.5) | 81 (10.5) | 37 (9.0) | 222 (0.6) | Â | Â |
12. Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue | 12 (1.3) | 8 (1.2) | 83 (1.4) | 33 (2.2) | 64 (1.4) | 19 (2.5) | 4 (1.0) | 38 (1.8) | Â | Â |
13. Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue | 56 (6.0) | 27 (4.2) | 439 (7.2) | 72 (4.8) | 338 (7.4) | 29 (3.7) | 16 (3.9) | 108 (5.2) | Â | Â |
14. Diseases of the genitourinary system | 41 (4.4) | 28 (4.4) | 229 (3.7) | 77 (5.1) | 217 (4.8) | 24 (3.1) | 13 (3.2) | 82 (3.9) | Â | Â |
15. Pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium | 15 (1.6) | 8 (1.2) | 67 (1.1) | 18 (1.2) | 40 (0.9) | 2 (0.3) | 1 (0.2) | 62 (3.0) | Â | Â |
17. Congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities | 3 (0.3) | 1 (0.2) | 22 (0.4) | 2 (0.1) | 4 (0.1) | 4 (0.5) | 2 (0.5) | 2 (0.1) | Â | Â |
18. Symptoms, signs, and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.0) | Â | Â |
19. Injury, poisoning, and certain other consequences of external causes | 100 (10.6) | 123 (19.2) | 704 (11.5) | 222 (14.7) | 620 (13.6) | 103 13.3) | 87 (21.2) | 374 (17.9) | Â | Â |
21. Factors influencing health status and contact with health services | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.0) | Â | Â |