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Acupuncture reduced the medical expenditure in migraine patients: Real-world data of a 10-year national cohort study.
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- Acupuncture Therapy as an Evidence-Based Nonpharmacologic Strategy for Comprehensive Acute Pain Care: The Academic Consortium Pain Task Force White Paper Update.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2022Pooled it
- Early acupuncture intervention strongly associates with improved swallowing recovery in post-stroke dysphagia: a multicenter real-world cohort study.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Anti-Inflammatory Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine on the Concept of Mind-Body Interface.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Review
- Proteomic and metabolomic profiling of acupuncture for migraine reveals a correlative link via energy metabolism.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesAccording to the data of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, almost all the countries got increased medical expenditures in these years. Among the diseases, migraine is a condition that affects predominantly young and middle-aged people. It results in great economic losses. So we perform this research to investigate the acupuncture effect of reducing medical expenditure and medical resources use. PERSPECTIVE: Acupuncture is a non-pharmacologic treatment and it became popular in recent years. In Taiwan, about 13% migraine patients visited acupuncture doctor. We hypothesized that the acupuncture had the additional effect than the medical treatment.
settingWe analysed the economic cost and medical visits in the real word.
methodsWe used national cohort data from Taiwan, retrospectively gathered between 2000 and 2010. We selected newly diagnosed migraine patients who were diagnosed by registered neurologists formally licensed by the Taiwan Neurological Society. We divided these patients into two groups: with and without acupuncture treatment. The main outcome was medical expenditures and visits within 1 year after acupuncture.
resultsIn migraine patients who received acupuncture treatment, medical expenditures on emergency care and hospitalization were significantly lower than the group without acupuncture treatment.
conclusionAccording to our real-world data, acupuncture can reduce the medical expenditure in migraine patients within 1 year after diagnosis. For the health policy maker, it is cost effective to encourage combining acupuncture and western medicine to treat migraine patients. For the doctors in routine clinical practice, who may consider to consult acupuncture doctors to deal with the migraine patients together.
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