Reduced Use of Emergency Care and Hospitalization in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury Receiving Acupuncture Treatment

Table 2

Visits and medical expenditure of emergency care and hospitalization between patients with and without acupuncture treatment in the first year after traumatic brain injury.

	Acupuncture treatment		𝑃 value
	No (𝑁=13980)	Yes (𝑁=3495)
Frequency of visits, mean ± SD
Emergency care	0.54±1.73	0.47±1.16	0.01
Hospitalization	0.38±0.99	0.29±0.89	<0.0001
Medical expenditure, mean ± SD
Emergency care	46.6±154.9	42.3±145.8	0.12
Hospitalization	872.6±5717.6	480.2±2426.6	<0.0001

SD: standard deviation.