Original Article
Utilization of Western Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine Services by Physicians and Their Relatives: The Role of Training Background
Table 1
Demographic characteristics of WMDs, CMDs, dual-trained doctors, doctor's relatives and the high SES adults.
| | WMDs (n = 31 122) | Relatives of WMD (n = 54 863) | WMD-CMDs (n = 2361) | Relatives of WMD-CMD (n = 3869) | CMDs (n = 4006) | Relatives of CMD (n = 7658) | High SES adults (n = 2 623 658) | | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) |
| | Age (years, mean ± SD) | 46.1 ± 14.9 | 50.8 ± 17.7 | 41.3 ± 8.0 | 47.4 ± 16.0 | 47.0 ± 11.5 | 46.8 ± 16.2 | 44.9 ± 12.9 | | Gender | | | | | | | | | Male | 27 576 (88.6) | 22 899 (41.7) | 2029 (85.9) | 1342 (34.7) | 3139 (78.4) | 3096 (40.4) | 1 559 179 (59.4) | | Female | 3546 (11.4) | 31 964 (58.3) | 332 (14.1) | 2527 (65.3) | 867 (21.6) | 4562 (59.6) | 1 064 479 (40.6) | | Geographic location | | | | | | | | | Taipei branch | 12 087 (38.8) | 21 106 (38.5) | 571 (24.2) | 965 (24.9) | 1202 (30.0) | 2145 (28.0) | 1 073 316 (40.9) | | Northern branch | 2926 (9.4) | 5522 (10.1) | 182 (7.7) | 323 (8.3) | 448 (11.2) | 968 (12.6) | 420 534 (16.0) | | Central branch | 5678 (18.2) | 9937 (18.1) | 941 (39.9) | 1420 (36.7) | 1222 (30.5) | 2391 (31.2) | 394 943 (15.1) | | South branch | 4351 (14.0) | 9290 (16.9) | 393 (16.6) | 716 (18.5) | 527 (13.2) | 1066 (13.9) | 295 914 (11.3) | | Kao-Ping branch | 5541 (17.8) | 8099 (14.8) | 231 (9.8) | 400 (10.3) | 552 (13.8) | 996 (13.0) | 395 624 (15.1) | | East branch | 539 (1.7) | 909 (1.7) | 43 (1.8) | 45 (1.2) | 55 (1.4) | 92 (1.2) | 43 327 (1.7) |
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WMDs: Western Medicine-Trained Doctors; CMDs: Chinese Medicine-Trained Doctors; SES: Socioeconomic status.
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