Research Article
Perspectives on Medical Services Integration among Conventional Western, Traditional Korean, and Dual-Licensed Medical Doctors in Korea
Table 1
General characteristics of the subjects in this study.
| | WM doctor () | KM doctor () | DL doctor | | Total () | WM-based () | KM-based () |
| | Sex | | | | | | | Male | 110 (65.9) | 98 (72.6) | 85 (82.5) | 51 (85.0) | 34 (79.1) | | Female | 56 (33.5) | 37 (27.4) | 18 (17.5) | 9 (15.0) | 9 (20.9) | | n.a. | 1 (0.6) | | | | | | Age | | | | | | | Over 50 | 36 (21.6) | 14 (10.4) | 12 (11.6) | 7 (11.7) | 5 (11.7) | | 41–50 | 45 (26.9) | 31 (23.0) | 33 (32.0) | 25 (41.7) | 8 (18.6) | | 31–40 | 49 (29.3) | 39 (28.9) | 47 (45.6) | 27 (45.0) | 20 (46.5) | | 21–30 | 36 (21.6) | 51 (37.8) | 11 (10.7) | 1 (1.7) | 10 (23.3) | | n.a. | 1 (0.6) | | | | | | Clinical specialist | | | | | | | Yes | 162 (97.0) | 102 (75.6) | 42 (40.8) | 18 (29.0) | 24 (55.8) | | WM specialist | 162 (97.0) | | 37 (35.9) | 16 (26.7) | 21 (48.8) | | KM specialist | | 102 (75.6) | 7 (6.8) | 2 (3.3) | 5 (11.6) | | Both | | | 2 (1.9) | | 2 (4.7) | | No | 5 (3.0) | 33 (24.4) | 59 (57.3) | 41 (68.3) | 18 (41.8) | | n.a. | | | 2 (1.9) | 1 (1.7) | 1 (2.4) | | Practice settings | | | | | | | Local clinic | 17 (10.2) | 53 (39.3) | 56 (54.4) | 46 (76.6) | 10 (23.2) | | Hospital | 148 (88.6) | 82 (60.7) | 31 (30.1) | 12 (20.0) | 19 (44.2) | | Others | | | 13 (12.6) | 1 (1.7) | 12 (27.9) | | n.a. | 2 (1.2) | | 3 (2.9) | 1 (1.7) | 2 (4.7) |
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Data shown as frequency (%).
WM: western medicine; KM: traditional Korean medicine; DL: dual-licensed; n.a.: not available.
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