Health care provided to recent asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking pediatric patients in 2016 and 2017 at a Swiss tertiary hospital - a retrospective study

Table 1 Baseline characteristics, nationality and most visited departments by asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients 2016–2017 at University Children’s Hospital Basel

	Asylum-seeking				Non-asylum-seeking
Characteristics	Visits n = 1674		Patients n = 439		Visits n = 200,642			Patients n = 55,350
Characteristics	N	%	N	%	N		%	N	%
Age groups:
0–2	646	39	96	22	45,478		23	13,297	24
3–14	575	34	152	34	117,546		58	32,819	59
15–17	421	25	171	39	25,736		13	5938	11
> 17	32	2	20	5	11,882		6	3296	6
Total 2016	812	49	243	55	100,842		50	36,560	66
Total 2017	862	51	243	55	99,800		50	36,767	66
Male gender	1172	70	307	70	110,567		55	29,520	53
Most frequent nationalities:
Syria	442	26	41	9	Switzerland	124,714	62	35,381	64
Eritrea	210	13	60	14	Germany	12,961	6	3853	7
Afghanistan	192	11	58	13	Turkey	9310	5	2080	4
Algeria	182	11	4	1	Italy	7292	4	1984	4
Armenia	157	9	4	1	Kosovo	5368	3	1325	2
Other	371	22	154	35	Other	40,973	20	10,714	19
Missing Data^a	120	7	118	27	Missing Data	24	0	13	0
Outpatient visits	1490	89	ns	ns	185,950		93	ns	ns
Office hour visits (7.00 am – 5.59 pm)	1505	90	ns	ns	167,901		84	ns	ns
Most visited outpatient departments:
Emergency	317	19	ns	ns	Emergency	64,315	32	ns	ns
Exercise therapy	200	12	ns	ns	Surgery	18,507	9	ns	ns
Radiology	173	10	ns	ns	Orthopedics	16,225	8	ns	ns
Occupational therapy	144	9	ns	ns	Ear, nose, throat	15,775	8	ns	ns
Haemato-oncology	141	8	ns	ns	Neurology	10,338	5	ns	ns

ns Not specified
^a Missing data nationality asylum-seeking: in 95% of cases patients only seen for radiological examination as part of a State Secretary of Migration age estimation-programme

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