Evaluating the Individualized Treatment of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Pilot Study of N-of-1 Trials

Table 1

Average symptom scores from the last week of each period and results of the statistical analyses.

	Case 1	Case 2	Case 3
Baseline	21	28	15
Pair1 CD	17.14	27.29	13
Pair1 ID	17	23.57	13
Pair2 ID	17.43	23.86	12.9
Pair2 CD	16.67	28.43
Pair3 CD	14	26.33	12.38
Pair3 ID	14	27.57	13.43
value		0.417
95% confidence interval		(−1.05, ∝)

CD: control decoction; ID: individualized decoction.
Not available due to an acute exacerbation.
These values were the results of one-sided paired Wilcoxon signed rank test for all the 3 cases.
No statistically significant differences in average symptom score between the two decoctions for each of the 3 cases and for the total 3 cases together.