Prescription of Kampo Drugs in the Japanese Health Care Insurance Program

Table 2

Distributions of the usage of Kampo drugs for sex, patient type, and age.

Drug	Total^1	Sex^2		Patient		Age
		Male	Female	Inpatient	Outpatient	0–9	10–19	20–29	30–39	40–49	50–59	60–69	70–79	80–89	90–98
All	67,095,008	42.81%	57.19%	2.88%	97.12%	9.05%	4.70%	5.28%	7.86%	7.82%	11.19%	18.58%	21.75%	11.82%	1.95%
Kampo	898,797	33.09%	66.91%	7.01%	92.99%	1.57%	1.76%	6.89%	9.80%	10.69%	9.85%	17.55%	23.81%	15.49%	2.59%

1Kampo drugs were perscribed for 100(89,897/67,095,0081)=1.34% patients of the total number of prescription.
2For male, Kampo drugs were prescribed for 100((89,897×0.3309)/(67,095,008×0.4281))=1.04% patients. For female 100((89,897×0.6691)/(67,095,008×0.5719))=1.57%.