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Table 2 Distribution of different treatment types of traditional Chinese medicine received by patients with dysfunctional uterine bleeding, stratified by the number of outpatients visits

From: The utilization of traditional Chinese medicine in patients with dysfunctional uterine bleeding in Taiwan: a nationwide population-based study

Number of TCM visits (times/per year)

Only Chinese herbal medicine

Only Acupuncture or traumatology

Combination of both treatment

Total of TCM seekers (N = 41,558)

N = 18,401 (44.28%)

N = 130 (0.31%)

N = 23,027 (55.41%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

1–3

15,460 (84.02)

128 (98.46)

13,925 (60.47)

29,513 (71.02)

4–6

1255 (6.82)

0

3110 (13.51)

4367 (10.51)

>6

1689 (9.16)

2 (1.54)

5992 (26.02)

7678 (18.48)

  1. Abbreviation: TCM traditional Chinese medicine
  2. Acupuncture includes traditional Chinese manual acupuncture, electroacupuncture, and moxibustion. Traumatology indicates traditional Chinese medicine traumatology and orthopedics, which is a combination of massage, acupressure, and body manipulation
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