Preliminary Study to Evaluate Three Different Treatments on Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients Based on Markov Model

Table 3

Annual Costs of COPD Patients^@.

	GOLD 1-2			GOLD 3-4
	Stable period	Mild attack; (outpatient/Community)	Severe attack; (Hospitalization)	Stable period	Mild attack; (outpatient/Community)	Severe attack; (Hospitalization)
Western medicine group	2998.36 ± 1750.01	7345.33 ± 10753.48	17882.67 ± 15426.19	5324.59 ± 985.55	9795.00 ± 17208.92	10735.00 ± 7861.86
TCM group	6829.00 ± 525.18	5974.76 ± 11563.94	12660.00 ± 16772.57	7015.94 ± 462.63	2567.78 ± 1170.40	8267.75 ± 7123.00
Combined group	9342.12 ± 1621.49	1597.50 ± 1610.06	8200 ± 282.84	11306.64 ± 770.09	2557.78 ± 1780.60	6605.72 ± 5450.84

^@Plus–minus values are means ± SD.