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. 2019 Jun 7;98(23):e15964. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000015964

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Recruitment flow chart of patients with knee osteoarthritis with medical treatment for total knee replacement. We enrolled 34,231 patients who were divided into 2 groups: TCM treatment group (26,257 patients, 76.7%) and non-TCM treatment group (7974 patients, 23.3%). In the TCM group, 1921 (7.3%) accepted total knee replacement surgery, while 650 (8.2%) from the non-TCM group received the surgery. TCM = Traditional Chinese medicine.

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