Complementary traditional Chinese medicine use in Children with cerebral palsy: a nationwide retrospective cohort study in Taiwan

Table 6 Total medical expenditure for utilizing ER service, outpatient clinical consultations and hospitalization within one year of diagnosis of cerebral palsy

Healthcare service	TCM user		Non-TCM user
Healthcare service	Mean^a	SD	Mean^a	SD	t-test
ER	1671.7	1591.2	1976.1	1990.9	0.002
Outpatient clinical consultations	1739.4	2267.4	891.8	1327.0	0.03
Hospitalization	33342.7	63914.2	46583.5	80183.7	0.001

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