Research Article
A Retrospective Analysis of Patients’ Conditions Using Acupuncture in a Traditional Korean Medicine Hospital
Table 2
Total number and distribution of acupuncture treatment received for 3 years.
| | | Outpatients () | Inpatients () | | Total sessions | Number of patients (%) | Mean sessions per patient | Total sessions | Number of patients (%) | Mean sessions per patient |
| | Acupuncture | | | | | | | | Manual acupuncture | 43767 | 10138 (100) | 4.32 (7.87) | 33570 | 1189 (100) | 28.23 (35.24) | | Electroacupuncture | 30104 | 7062 (69.66) | 4.26 (7.51) | 3787 | 406 (34.15) | 9.33 (14.56) | | Pharmacoacupuncture | 8793 | 1585 (15.63) | 5.55 (9.71) | 3308 | 485 (40.79) | 6.82 (11.60) | | Manual acupuncture plus cupping | | | | | | | | Wet cupping | 16454 | 4373 (43.13) | 3.76 (5.92) | 9244 | 924 (77.71) | 10.01 (9.73) | | Dry cupping | 50 | 11 (0.11) | 4.55 (5.41) | 198 | 20 (1.68) | 9.90 (8.50) | | Manual acupuncture plus moxibustion | | | | | | | | Direct mox. | 315 | 50 (0.49) | 6.30 (9.59) | 58 | 8 (0.67) | 7.25 (7.19) | | Indirect mox. | 822 | 220 (2.17) | 3.74 (5.47) | 4535 | 329 (27.67) | 13.77 (17.08) | | Manual acupuncture plus chuna | 504 | 146 (1.44) | 3.45 (3.95) | 173 | 71 (5.97) | 2.44 (2.04) | | Manual acupuncture plus herb | 65567 | 2131 (21.02) | 30.77 (28.84) | 37592 | 903 (75.95) | 41.63 (51.17) | | Manual acupuncture plus IR | 45691 | 9993 (98.57) | 4.27 (7.86) | 3763 | 606 (50.97) | 6.21 (10.72) |
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IR: Infrared, Values are presented as (%) or mean (SD).
Mean session = number of patients/total session.
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