Effectiveness of Chinese Herbal Medicine Combined with Antibiotics for Extensively Drug-Resistant Enterobacteria and Nonfermentative Bacteria Infection: Real-Life Experience in a Retrospective Cohort

Table 2

Baseline characteristics in TCM group and Control group ().

	TCM	Control	Normal value range
Case number	547	219
Gender (M/F)	293/254	124/95
Age (yr)
Mean ± SD
Range	18–101	18–98
Temperature (°C)			36.537.5
Heart rate (/min)			60100
Breath (/min)			1620
WBC ()			410
N (%)			4070
HGB (g/L)			120160
RBC (12/L)			3.55.5
PLT (9/L)			100300
Cr (mol/L)			53106
GLU (mmol/L)			3.96.1
TBIL (mol/L)			2.020.4
ALB (g/L)			40.055.0

was significant difference between the two groups (). There were no significant differences between the TCM and Control group () concerning all items except breath, HGB, and TBIL.