Research Article

Investigation into the Individualized Treatment of Traditional Chinese Medicine through a Series of N-of-1 Trials

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the 14 completers/partial-completers.

Gender (male/female)14 (3/11)
Age in years—mean (minimum, maximum)64.14 (50, 72)
Bronchiectasis in chest CT (unilateral/bilateral)(3/11)
TCM syndrome differentiation (lung and spleen deficiency syndrome/qi and yin deficiency syndrome)(4/10)
Concomitant medication (Yes/No)(2/12)
Baseline of the outcomesMean (SD)
Symptom scores2.76 (0.136)
24-hour sputum volume24.45 (5.89)
CAT scores15.27 (1.57)