Effectiveness of Integrative Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease Management

Woo, Yeonju; Hyun, Min Kyung

Except for patients diagnosed with PD prior to 2007, patients treated without biomedicine treatment and those younger than 65 years, a total of 1,438 patients were included in the cohort. Of these, 117 were treated using both biomedicine and Korean medicine, while 1,321 received biomedicine alone. After PS estimation and matching, the cohort used in the analysis included 228 subjects (114 in the integrative therapy group and 114 in the monotherapy group) (Figure 2) . The PS matching was considered to be well-fitted based on a c-statistics value of 0.810 and a p-value of the Goodness-of-Fit Test of 0.141. The patients' characteristics based on confounders in the two groups before and after PS matching were compared. After PS matching, the characteristics of both groups were statistically similar ( Table 1) .