Table 2.
Medical care and western medicine use for people with and without purchasing CHM
| Purchase of CHM | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No (N = 15,889) | Yes (N = 867) | Multivariate | |||||
| n | (%) | n | (%) | p-value | OR | (95% CI)b | |
| Purchase of biomedical medicinea | |||||||
| No | 13,172 | (95.4) | 632 | (4.6) | <0.0001 | 1.00 | (reference) |
| Yes | 2717 | (92.0) | 235 | (8.0) | 1.60 | (1.36–1.88) | |
| Emergency care in past year | |||||||
| No | 13,721 | (95.0) | 723 | (5.0) | 0.0137 | 1.00 | (reference) |
| Yes | 2168 | (93.8) | 144 | (6.2) | 1.17 | (0.97–1.42) | |
| Hospitalized care in past year | |||||||
| No | 14,265 | (95.0) | 759 | (5.0) | 0.0352 | 1.00 | (reference) |
| Yes | 1624 | (93.8) | 108 | (6.2) | 1.09 | (0.87–1.35) | |
| Outpatient care by WM in past yeara | |||||||
| No | 4893 | (95.1) | 255 | (4.9) | 0.3900 | 1.00 | (reference) |
| Yes | 10,996 | (94.7) | 612 | (5.3) | 1.09 | (0.93–1.27) | |
| Frequency of outpatient care by WM in past year | |||||||
| None | 4899 | (95.1) | 255 | (4.9) | <0.0001 | 1.00 | (reference) |
| Low | 3739 | (96.2) | 149 | (3.8) | 0.92 | (0.74–1.14) | |
| Moderate | 3645 | (94.7) | 203 | (5.3) | 1.14 | (0.94–1.38) | |
| High | 3606 | (93.3) | 260 | (6.7) | 1.18 | (0.98–1.41) | |
| Expenditure of WM in past year | |||||||
| None | 4899 | (95.1) | 255 | (4.9) | <0.0001 | 1.00 | (reference) |
| Low | 3681 | (96.2) | 147 | (3.8) | 0.92 | (0.74–1.14) | |
| Moderate | 3619 | (94.5) | 210 | (5.5) | 1.18 | (0.97–1.43) | |
| High | 3690 | (93.5) | 255 | (6.5) | 1.14 | (0.95–1.38) | |
CHM Chinese herbal medicine, WM Western medicine
aPurchase biomedical medicine without a physician’s prescription. bAdjusted for age, gender, education, ethnicity, density of TCM physicians, and medical care in the past 6 months in multiple logistic regression