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The medical technology and environment improvement in Taiwan have prolonged the life expectancy in these days. The elder and catastrophic illness have further increased the medical expenses. The purpose of this article is to discuss the major top ten incidence of out-patient medical treatments. We use the time as the threshold variable in the Threshold self regression model (TAR) to estimate the difference in the initially material injury patients. The significant injury incidence rates among the top ten class, cancer, chronic uremia, metabolic disorders, psychosis, deformity, cirrhosis, have changed in paralytic syndrome model. Only the systemic immune disease syndrome and the occupational model could maintain a consistent state. The analysis results in this study can be used to the reference of government to plunging into more resources in catastrophic illness.
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