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

Table 4

Risks of high medical visits and of high emergency care and hospitalization for patients with and without acupuncture treatment in the first year after traumatic brain injury.

	No acupuncture			Acupuncture treatment*
	Cases	RR	(95% CI)	Cases	RR	(95% CI)
High medical visits
Emergency care	800	1.00	(Reference)	17	0.88	(0.75–1.02)
Hospitalization	640	1.00	(Reference)	99	0.62	(0.50–0.76)
High medical expenditure
Emergency care	707	1.00	(Reference)	172	0.97	(0.83–1.14)
Hospitalization	506	1.00	(Reference)	84	0.66	(0.53–0.83)

∗Adjusted for age, gender, low income, TCM physician density, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, mental disorder, migraine, epilepsy, ischemia heart disease, and stroke.
CI: confidence interval; RR: relative risk; TCM: traditional Chinese medicine.