Efficacy and Cost Effectiveness of the Acupuncture Treatment Using a New Skin Stimulus Tool Called M-Test Which Is a Measure Based on Symptoms Accompanied with Body Movements: A Pragmatic RCT Targeting Hemodialysis Patients

Table 4

The change in utility in each phase.

	Treatment phase 0	Treatment phase 4	Treatment phase 8	Follow-up phase 4	Follow-up phase 12
Acupuncture group	0.66 ± 0.15	0.65 ± 0.18		0.71 ± 0.16	0.66 ± 0.20
Traditional treatment group	0.64 ± 0.18	0.63 ± 0.20	0.64 ± 0.18	0.63 ± 0.19	0.64 ± 0.21

 ^*, compared to traditional treatment group.
^# compared to the phase 0 in the group.