Epidemiology:

  • In 41 months, 802,255 patients had 4.17 Million visits to student health centers
  • The average visits per patient is 5.20
  • The top 10 diagnostic categories for the 802,000 individuals seen over 41 months are rank ordered below.
  • Since individuals can have more than one diagnosis, the total of percentages is greater than 100.
  • Average visits per patient in each category are also listed.

Percent of Patients and Visits per Patient for Each Diagnostic Category

DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORY Percent of Patients

Diagnosis Specific Visits per patient

preventive

49.0

2.30

respiratory

36.7

1.79

skin, nails, hair

15.5

1.69

infectious (non STI)

14.3

1.43

mental health

12.9

4.93

musculoskeletal

11.9

2.06

injuries

11.9

1.72

abdomen, digestive, gastro

11.2

1.54

eye, ear, mouth

10.8

1.55
female reproductive

9.1

1.65

 

James Turner, M.D. is Executive Director of NSNI & Principal Investigator of the CHSN project.