Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Its Impact on Medical Cost among Urban Ischemic Stroke Inpatients in China: A National Cross-Sectional Study
CONCLUSION: Although the use of TCM reduced the cost of conventional medicine compared with TCM nonusers, TCM imposed an extra financial component on the total inpatient cost on TCM users. Our study suggests that TCM mainly played a complementary role to conventional medicine in ischemic stroke treatment in mainland China.PMID:34745303 | PMC:PMC8570870 | DOI:10.1155/2021/8554829
Source: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Zhengwei Huang Xuefeng Shi Stephen Nicholas Elizabeth Maitland Yong Yang Weihan Zhao Yong Ma Yan Jiang Source Type: research
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