The Impact of the SARS Epidemic on the Utilization of Medical Services: SARS and the Fear of SARS
Hong-Jen Chang, MD, MPH,
Nicole Huang, MPH,
Cheng-Hua Lee, MD, DrPH,
Yea-Jen Hsu, MS,
Chi-Jeng Hsieh, MS and
Yiing-Jenq Chou, MD, PhD
Hong-Je Chang, Cheng-Hua Lee, and Chi-Jeng Hsieh are with the Bureau of National Health Insurance, Taipei, Taiwan. Nicole Huang is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. Yea-Jen Hsu and Yiing-Jenq Chou are with the Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.

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FIGURE 1 Observed and predicted expenditures for ambulatory and inpatient care in the preepidemic, epidemic, and postepidemic periods, January 2002 through August 2003. The date of the initial outbreak is marked with a vertical line.
Note. NT$ = New Taiwan dollars.
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