Effectiveness of Integrative Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease Management

Woo, Yeonju; Hyun, Min Kyung

From 2007 to 2011, a cohort of patients aged 65 years or older who were diagnosed with PD by the NHIS-NSC was established. The diagnosis was defined by the G20 code based on the Korean Standard Classification of Diseases (KCD), which is the same as the 10 th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). Patients who were diagnosed with PD during the eligibility period were excluded; therefore, only those newly diagnosed with PD from 2007 to 2011 were included (Figure 1 ). Patients were divided into two groups by treatment type, an integrative therapy group that received both biomedicine and KM, and a monotherapy group that was only treated with biomedicine. When treatment history for PD was recorded at least twice in each form, the patient was considered to have received the treatment. However, patients who received the treatment only once were excluded (Figure 2 ).