Prevalence, expenditures, and associated factors of purchasing non-prescribed Chinese herbal medicine in Taiwan

• Feng-Ping Hu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Chien-Chan Liao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Anesthesiology and Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Research Center of Big Data and Meta-Analysis, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Ta-Liang Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Anesthesiology and Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chun-Chieh Yeh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Luwen Shi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luwen Shi, Chun-Chuan Shih

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Chun-Chuan Shih

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luwen Shi, Chun-Chuan Shih

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hwathai@seed.net.tw, hwathai885@gmail.com, hwathai885@isu.edu.tw

  Affiliations School of Chinese Medicine for Post-Baccalaureate, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Ph.D. Program in Clinical Drug Development of Herbal Medicine, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8775-378X

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