Table 3.
Chinese medicine prescribing frequency.
| Variable | Intervention group (n = 197) |
Historical control group (n = 405) |
χ 2 | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese medicine therapy | 192 (97) | 342 (84) | 21.93 | 0.00 |
| Compound Danshen dripping pills | 124 (63) | 9 (7) | 283.91 | 0.00 |
| Qi-benefitting intravenous agents▵ | 153 (78) | 176 (43) | 62.58 | 0.00 |
| Blood-activating intravenous agents◊ | 0 (0) | 256 (63) | — | 0.00* |
∗Using the exact probability method.
▵Qi-benefitting intravenous agents are TCM injections whose indications are to improve rehabilitation by benefitting Qi, and they include Astragalus injection, Shen Mai injection, and Shenfu injection.
◊Blood-activating intravenous agents are TCM injections whose indications are to promote rehabilitation by promoting blood circulation and eliminating blood stasis, and they include Salvia injection, Safflower injection, and Tetramethylpyrazine injection et al.