Use of Chinese medicine correlates negatively with the consumption of conventional medicine and medical cost in patients with uterine fibroids: a population-based retrospective cohort study in Taiwan.

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Use of Chinese medicine correlates negatively with the consumption of conventional medicine and medical cost in patients with uterine fibroids: a population-based retrospective cohort study in Taiwan.

蘇珊玉 Shan-Yu Su 主任

利用全民健康保險數據庫分析，回顧研究中且可藥（CM）使用者和非使用者在子宮肌瘤患者中常規西藥的消耗和醫療費用。發現中藥使用者減少了常規藥物（貧血劑（-3.50天/年/患者，P <0.0001），止血劑（ - 1.89天/年/患者，P <0.0001）和激素相關藥物（-3.13天/年/患者，P <0.0001）的消耗，並能成為用於以低成本治療子宮肌瘤的常規西藥的潛在替代治療劑。