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Table 1 Percentage of the excess numbers of medical treatments and hospitalization as reported by 12 large public hospitals and public medics for each year during 1918-1920 over the averaged yearly numbers of the adjacent baseline years of 1916, 1917, 1921, and 1922.

From: Excess healthcare burden during 1918-1920 influenza pandemic in Taiwan: implications for post-pandemic preparedness

Year

Public Hospitals

Public medic patients

 

Outpatients (95% CI)

# of hospitalizations

 

1918

20.11 (16.43, 25.90)

12.20 (10.59, 14.38)

32.21* (28.48, 39.82)

1919

14.55 (11.89, 18.74)

36.70* (31.85, 43.27)

26.64* (22.70, 31.73)

1920

1.72 (1.40, 2.21)

19.83* (17.21, 23.38)

8.27 (7.09, 9.92)

  1. *Statistically significant (more than 2 SD).