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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 - November 8, 2021 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Zhengwei Huang Xuefeng Shi Stephen Nicholas Elizabeth Maitland Yong Yang Weihan Zhao Yong Ma Yan Jiang Source Type: research

Efficacy of Acupuncture Treatment for Incidence of Poststroke Comorbidities: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Nationalized Cohort Studies
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2022 Feb 1;2022:3919866. doi: 10.1155/2022/3919866. eCollection 2022.ABSTRACTAcupuncture has been applied as a complementary therapy in stroke survivors worldwide and approved to be beneficial to stroke recovery. However, there is little medical evidence regarding the association between acupuncture and the risk of poststroke comorbidities. We reviewed big data studies from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database to investigate the risk of poststroke comorbidities after acupuncture treatment in a real-world situation. Ten English (PubMed, Embase, Medline, Cochrane, Alt Hea...
Source: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - February 14, 2022 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Li-Kung Wu Chung-Shan Hung Yen-Lun Kung Zhong-Kui Chen Shinn-Zong Lin Jaung-Geng Lin Tsung-Jung Ho Source Type: research