Original Article
Utilization of Western Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine Services by Physicians and Their Relatives: The Role of Training Background
Table 2
Adjusted utilization measures 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-CMDs (n = 3869) | CMDs (n = 4006) | Relatives of CMDs (n = 7658) | High SES adults (n = 2 623 658) | | Mean (SE) | Mean (SE) | Mean (SE) | Mean (SE) | Mean (SE) | Mean (SE) | Mean (SE) |
| | WM | | | | | | | | | Probability of use | 0.84 (0.00) | 0.89 (0.00) | 0.81 (0.00) | 0.90 (0.00) | 0.57 (0.00) | 0.81 (0.00) | 0.89 (0.00) | | Visits | 10.91 (0.04) | 16.02 (0.04) | 9.41 (0.05) | 14.71 (0.14) | 3.91 (0.04) | 9.70 (0.07) | 11.01 (0.00) | | Expenditures (in NTD) | 13 415 (79) | 17 186 (71) | 8627 (58) | 14 797 (224) | 3852 (66) | 9092 (110) | 9531 (31) | | TCM | | | | | | | | | Probability of use | 0.06 (0.00) | 0.22 (0.00) | 0.22 (0.00) | 0.31 (0.00) | 0.70 (0.00) | 0.59 (0.00) | 0.31 (0.00) | | Visits | 0.24 (0.00) | 1.13 (0.00) | 2.07 (0.02) | 2.40 (0.01) | 17.87 (0.06) | 9.16 (0.03) | 1.67 (0.00) | | Expenditures (in NTD) | 134 (0) | 624 (1) | 1133 (8) | 1324 (7) | 9557 (29) | 5014 (15) | 915 (0) |
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A set of three variables (age, gender, and geographic location) was used to adjust for differences in health care utilization across each subgroup.
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