The trends of utilization in traditional Chinese medicine in Taiwan from 2000 to 2010

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 95, Issue 27, 2016, Pages

  Yeh, Yuh Hsiang ^a,b,c   Chou, Yiing Jenq ^a   Huang, Nicole ^d   Pu, Christy ^e   Chou, Pesus ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b People's Bank of China   (China)

^c TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d Institute of Hospital and Health Care Administration   (Taiwan)

^e Department of Pathology   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese herbal medicine; disease categories; national health insurance; traditional Chinese medicine; utilization of traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INTOXICATION; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEOPLASM; PARASITOSIS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TAIWAN; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; TAIWAN; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978759461     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000004115     Document Type: Article

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