Research Article

Preliminary Study to Evaluate Three Different Treatments on Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients Based on Markov Model

Table 8

Utilities and Costs of Every 100,000 Patients in 40 Years.

Utility and CostWestern medicine groupTCM groupCombined groupD-value between combined and Western groupD-value between combined and TCM group

Life year—yr1 702 7731 616 7971 709 6686 89592 567
QALY—yr1 556 9611 618 4331 680 364123 40361 931
Total cost—Yuan13 582 138 46612 073 904 11314 656 607 3711 074 460 0002 582 700 000