Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Dry Eye Treatment by Institutional Chinese Physicians in Singapore
Figure 1
Demographics of surveyed TCM practitioners. Bar chart representing (a) number of years of practice among surveyed TCM practitioners and (b) place of practice of TCM practitioners. “Conventional hospitals” refer to places with mainly conventional medicine and diagnosis, for example, Singapore General Hospital, Tan Tock Seng Hospital; “TCM institutions” are places of TCM clinical practice and education, for example, Thong Chai Medical Institution, Chung Hwa Medical Institution, whereas “chain enterprises” are mostly commercially driven TCM clinics with several branches, for example, Eu Yan Seng, Ma Kuang, Beijing Tong Ren Tang; “private practice” are individual private clinics that usually include 1-2 TCM practitioners; not included are miscellaneous locations not described by above categories: for example, Nanyang Technological University TCM Clinic, clinics at spas and wellness groups, and so forth.
