Table 4.
Risks of high medical visits and of high emergency care and hospitalization for patients with and without acupuncture treatment in the first year after traumatic brain injury.
| No acupuncture | Acupuncture treatment* | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | RR | (95% CI) | Cases | RR | (95% CI) | |
| High medical visits | ||||||
| Emergency care | 800 | 1.00 | (Reference) | 17 | 0.88 | (0.75–1.02) |
| Hospitalization | 640 | 1.00 | (Reference) | 99 | 0.62 | (0.50–0.76) |
| High medical expenditure | ||||||
| Emergency care | 707 | 1.00 | (Reference) | 172 | 0.97 | (0.83–1.14) |
| Hospitalization | 506 | 1.00 | (Reference) | 84 | 0.66 | (0.53–0.83) |
*Adjusted for age, gender, low income, TCM physician density, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, mental disorder, migraine, epilepsy, ischemia heart disease, and stroke.
CI: confidence interval; RR: relative risk; TCM: traditional Chinese medicine.