This site holds a structured record of 124 Grade III-A hospitals across 44 Chinese cities: 3,145 departments, 6,463 named clinicians, 93 published fee lines, and 51 hospitals whose international department could be confirmed on their own website. Every field names the page it was read from and the date it was checked. The figures below are counted at build time from the same records the hospital pages render.
Each figure, what it does and does not include, and where it comes from.
| Measure | Count | What it counts | Read from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitals profiled | 124 | Hospitals with a full record page. Every one is Grade III-A or above, in a tier-1, new-tier-1 or tier-2 city. | The hospital's own site, its health-authority listing, or its official announcements. |
| Cities covered | 44 | Cities with at least one profiled hospital. | Administrative classification, not a ranking of the cities. |
| Departments recorded | 3,145 | Department entries read from hospital sites and mapped onto this site's specialty taxonomy. A hospital that lists 40 departments contributes 40 rows, not 40 unique specialties. | The hospital's own department pages. |
| Named clinicians | 6,463 | 928 names published by the hospital itself and 5,535 romanised by this site from the Chinese name. A name in this count means the hospital lists the person — not that the person is available to international patients. | Department rosters on hospital sites. |
| Clinicians individually confirmed for international patients | 111 | The subset where a hospital page states, in its own words, that this person sees international or foreign patients. Deliberately small: being on a roster is not the same claim. | International-department pages and clinician profiles. |
| Hospitals with a confirmed international department | 51 | Hospitals publishing an international department, international clinic or foreign-patient office that this site could confirm on their own website. | The hospital's international-department page. |
| Hospitals with a verified official website | 123 | Where the domain could be tied to the hospital rather than to an agency or a directory. | Certificate, footer, or an official page linking to it. |
| Published fee records | 93 | Individual price lines a hospital or a provincial health authority published. These are list prices, not what a patient paid, and not a quote. | Published fee schedules and price-disclosure pages. |
| Distinct source documents | 59 | Separate pages the records were read from. One document commonly supports many fields, so this is documents, not citations. | — |
The absences are part of the record. Each one is a thing hospitals rarely publish, or a thing this site refuses to estimate.
Free to cite, with attribution. Attribution is how a reader checks the number — it is not a permission fee.
Suggested form
ChinaMedBase, "The dataset behind ChinaMedBase", https://chinamedbase.com/data (accessed YYYY-MM-DD)
When citing a single hospital rather than the dataset, link that hospital’s page instead — it carries the specific source and check date, which a count of the whole site does not. If a figure here is wrong, tell us and the correction is published on the corrections list.
The same information in the formats an agent or crawler would rather read.
How this page is kept true. The counts are compiled at build time from the same snapshot the hospital pages render from, and a build that ships a snapshot older than the database fails its own checks. A figure on this page therefore cannot drift from the pages it describes without the deploy stopping first.