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Table 2 Information on access to health services

From: Access to health services by women subjected to violence: findings from administrative healthcare data from the metropolitan area of northern Italy

		N	%	Admission rate per 10,000
N. of ED women
	2019	2103	21.1%	9.4
	2020	1564	15. 7%	7.1
	2021	1821	18.3%	8.3
	2022	2101	21.1%	9.4
	2023	2365	23.8%	10.7
Total^a		9954	100.0%
N. of ED accesses
	2019	2414	20.8%	32.8
	2020	1836	15.8%	40.3
	2021	2090	18.0%	39.6
	2022	2436	21.0%	40.1
	2023	2813	24.3%	44.7
Total		11,589	100.0%
N. of multiple accesses
	1	8321	88.5%
	2	859	9.1%
	3	150	1.6%
	4	49	0.5%
	5 and more	23	0.3%
Total^b		9402	100.0%
Hospitalizations^c
	Yes	441	4.7%
	No	8961	95.3%
Total		9402	100.0%

^aIn this case, a single record per woman was maintained for each year
^bRepeated accesses for any hospital per fiscal code were counted
^cThe number of women who had access to the emergency room due to violence and who were admitted to the hospital within 7 days of the access was studied

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