| ATE | Average treatment effect |
| OHC | online health community |
| the specialty category’s Gini coefficient | |
| O2O | online-to-offline |
| SP | served patients |
| OR | online reviews |
| the mean of the number of Doctors’ articles | |
| the breadth of the voted specialties | |
| the ratings in user reviews of the doctors | |
| the contribution score for the doctors | |
| CTM | Chinese traditional medicine |
| PSM | propensity score matching |