The Progress of Emergency Medicine in Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong: Perspective from Publications in Emergency Medicine Journals, 1992–2011

Table 2

Trends (β) in the numbers of publications from Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong and in the ratios to the total number of emergency medicine publications from 1992 to 2011 and from 2002 to 2011.

	Trend (𝛽)	95% CI*	𝑃 value
Numbers of publications (1992 to 2011)
Taiwan	6.170	4.685 to 7.654	<0.001
China	1.908	0.959 to 2.856	0.001
Hong Kong	2.835	1.720 to 3.949	<0.001
The ratios to the total number of EM publications (1992 to 2011)
Taiwan	15.0×10^−4	11.1×10^−4 to 18.9×10^−4	<0.001
China	4.60×10^−4	2.27×10^−4 to 6.93×10^−4	0.001
Hong Kong	6.80×10^−4	4.06×10^−4 to 9.54×10^−4	<0.001
Numbers of publications (2002 to 2011)
Taiwan	9.588	4.503 to 14.673	0.02
China	6.036	3.658 to 8.415	<0.001
Hong Kong	7.158	4.015 to 10.300	0.001
The ratios to the total number of EM publications (2002 to 2011)
Taiwan	1.04×10^−3	−0.45×10^−3 to 2.53×10^−3	0.146
China	1.49×10^−3	0.94×10^−3 to 2.04×10^−3	<0.001
Hong Kong	1.53×10^−3	0.621×10^−3 to 2.44×10^−3	0.005

∗Confidence interval.