Quality Appraisal of the Pharmacoeconomic Research Literature about Antivirals: A Comparison between Chinese Medicine and Non-Chinese Medicine

Table 5

Comparison of QHES scores of Chinese medicine and non-Chinese medicine.

	Antiviral Chinese medicine	Antiviral non-Chinese medicine	MD	value
Item 1	4.02 ± 3.48	3.85 ± 2.12	0.32 (0.12, 0.51)	0.43
Item 2	1.52 ± 0.31	2.14 ± 0.35	−0.65 (−0.86, −0.43)	0.12
Item 3	4.49 ± 0.70	5.52 ± 0.56	−1.04 (−1.36, −0.68)	0.65
Item 5	4.23 ± 3.13	5.21 ± 0.84	−1.17 (−1.76, −0.63)	0.44
Item 6	3.18 ± 4.91	3.54 ± 1.56	−0.46 (−0.63, −0.42)	0.62
Item 7	0.79 ± 1.22	1.93 ± 0.71	−1.16 (−1.32, −1.08)	0.01
Item 8	5.25 ± 1.37	5.85 ± 2.11	−0.61 (−0.84, −0.47)	0.56
Item 9	5.61 ± 0.63	5.52 ± 0.45	0.15 (0.12, 0.17)	0.83
Item 10	4.25 ± 1.99	4.51 ± 1.27	−0.39 (−0.42, −0.33)	0.59
Item 11	3.73 ± 0.54	4.18 ± 1.89	−0.47 (−0.81, −0.10)	0.43
Item 12	0.06 ± 5.13	1.18 ± 4.64	−1.02 (−1.64, −0.56)	≤0.01
Item 13	0.16 ± 2.46	0.77 ± 0.41	−0.59 (−0.67, −0.54)	0.03
Item 14	0.43 ± 0.36	0.74 ± 2.03	−0.36 (−0.44, −0.32)	0.16
Item 15	3.21 ± 0.12	3.84 ± 1.98	−0.72 (−0.81, −0.66)	0.51
Item 16	0.16 ± 1.03	0.16 ± 1.34	−0.01 (−0.37, −0.29)	0.98
Total	41.37 ± 4.46	48.89 ± 7.25	−7.46 (−7.71, −7.02)	0.03

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