Percentage of prescriptions with different number of drugs across 10 provinces of rural Western China
| Province | Rural population (thousands) | No of village doctors surveyed | No of prescriptions | Mean no of chemical medicines per prescription | Mean no of Chinese traditional medicines per prescription | Mean no of drugs per prescription | Percentage of prescriptions including injection | Percentage of prescriptions with five or more drugs |
| Chongqing | 2852 | 78 | 2319 | 2.10 | 0.93 | 3.03 | 22.68 | 13.3 |
| Sichuan | 2275 | 75 | 2243 | 2.12 | 0.95 | 3.06 | 19.04 | 11.5 |
| Xinjiang | 210 | 33 | 956 | 1.41 | 0.83 | 2.24 | 32.74 | 4.5 |
| Guangxi | 1942 | 89 | 2469 | 1.64 | 0.92 | 2.57 | 32.48 | 6.4 |
| Gansu | 886 | 37 | 1098 | 1.56 | 0.92 | 2.48 | 8.01 | 5.3 |
| Guizhou | 1701 | 72 | 2109 | 1.37 | 0.75 | 2.12 | 31.96 | 5.2 |
| Jiangxi | 2167 | 84 | 2611 | 1.56 | 0.49 | 2.05 | 16.85 | 0.8 |
| Inner Mongolia | 730 | 65 | 2048 | 1.03 | 0.69 | 1.72 | 12.01 | 0.7 |
| Qinghai | 952 | 76 | 2213 | 1.38 | 0.90 | 2.28 | 35.47 | 6.3 |
| Ningxia | 818 | 71 | 2059 | 1.18 | 0.77 | 1.95 | 15.2 | 3.2 |
| Total | 14533 | 680 | 20125 | 1.55 | 0.81 | 2.36 | 22.93 | 5.8 |