Table 2.
Distributions of outpatient service providers for pediatric and adult patients with leukemia during 2001–2011.
| Outpatient services providers | TCM users | TCM nonusers | p value for χ 2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visits | Percentage (95% CI) | Visits | Percentage (95% CI) | ||
| Pediatric | |||||
| Type of provider | <0.001 | ||||
| Public hospitals | 20,407 | 22.33 (22.06, 22.6) | 80,522 | 19.47 (19.35, 19.59) | |
| Public Chinese medicine hospitals | 20 | 0.02 (0.01, 0.03) | 92 | 0.02 (0.02, 0.03) | |
| Private hospitals | 38,522 | 42.15 (41.83, 42.47) | 160,049 | 38.70 (38.55, 38.85) | |
| Private Chinese medicine hospitals | 86 | 0.09 (0.07, 0.11) | 191 | 0.05 (0.04, 0.05) | |
| Public clinics | 160 | 0.18 (0.15, 0.2) | 1,497 | 0.36 (0.34, 0.38) | |
| Private clinics | 32,187 | 35.22 (34.91, 35.53) | 171,108 | 41.37 (41.22, 41.52) | |
| Other medicine service providers | 9 | 0.01 (0, 0.02) | 103 | 0.02 (0.02, 0.03) | |
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| Total | 91,391 | 413,562 | |||
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| Adult | |||||
| Type of provider | <0.001 | ||||
| Public hospitals | 52,167 | 20.64 (20.49, 20.80) | 354,202 | 19.77 (19.71, 19.83) | |
| Public Chinese medicine hospitals | 400 | 0.16 (0.14, 0.17) | 905 | 0.05 (0.05, 0.05) | |
| Private hospitals | 91,396 | 36.17 (35.98, 36.36) | 612,655 | 34.20 (34.13, 34.27) | |
| Private Chinese medicine hospitals | 614 | 0.24 (0.22, 0.26) | 4,044 | 0.23 (0.22, 0.23) | |
| Public clinics | 3,782 | 1.5 (1.45, 1.54) | 40,716 | 2.27 (2.25, 2.29) | |
| Private clinics | 103,932 | 41.13 (40.94, 41.32) | 776,052 | 43.32 (43.24, 43.39) | |
| Other medicine service providers | 399 | 0.16 (0.14, 0.17) | 3,026 | 0.17 (0.16, 0.17) | |
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| Total | 252,690 | 1,791,600 | |||
TCM: Traditional Chinese Medicine; CI: confidence interval.