Table 1.
Physicians’ self-reported reference status of diabetes guidelines (n (%))
| Categories | Overall (n=1150) |
Physicians in different level hospitals | |||
| Tertiary care hospital physicians (n=461) |
Secondary care hospital physicians (n=307) |
Primary care practitioners (n=382) |
P value | ||
| Modern medicine guidelines* | |||||
| Frequent reference | 842 (73.2) | 373 (80.9) | 237 (77.2) | 232 (60.7) | <0.001 |
| Occasional reference | 236 (20.5) | 75 (16.3) | 59 (19.2) | 102 (26.7) | |
| Infrequent reference | 53 (4.6) | 9 (2.0) | 8 (2.6) | 36 (9.4) | |
| Rare reference | 17 (1.5) | 4 (0.9) | 3 (1.0 | 10 (2.6) | |
| No reference | 2 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.5) | |
| TCM guidelines† | |||||
| Frequent reference | 389 (33.8) | 167 (36.2) | 112 (36.5) | 110 (28.8) | 0.071 |
| Occasional reference | 459 (39.9) | 182 (39.5) | 127 (41.4) | 150 (39.3) | |
| Infrequent reference | 186 (16.2) | 66 (14.3) | 41 (13.4) | 79 (20.7) | |
| Rare no reference | 89 (7.7) | 34 (7.4) | 25 (8.1) | 30 (7.9) | |
| No reference | 27 (2.4) | 12 (2.6) | 2 (0.7) | 13 (3.4) | |
*Modern medicine guidelines including Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes issued by the American Diabetes Association, Guideline for the Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in China and National Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes in Primary Care issued by Chinese Diabetes Society.
†TCM guidelines including Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Diabetes in Chinese Medicine issued by China Association of Chinese Medicine.
TCM, traditional Chinese medicine.