The Benefit of Enhanced Day Care of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Retrospective Study of Medical Records

Taipei City Hospital401 enrolled

Overview

We collected medical records since June 2017 to November 2019., used pair-T test for questionnaire of CTCAE, BFT-I, WHOQOL to evaluate the benefit of enhanced day care of TCM for cancer patients.

using TCM method as Complementary and Alternative Medicine is worldwide. we collected medical records that using TCM methods for adverse event from cancer therapies. we used CTCAE BFI-T and WHOQOF-BREF to evaluate the benefit.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

401

Conditions

Chemotherapy-Induced Change

Interventions

enhanced day care of TCM include acupuncture, massage, tai ji quan, TCM herbal medicineCOMBINATION_PRODUCT

acupuncture twice in enhanced day care of TCM massage twice in enhanced day care of TCM tai ji quan one time in enhanced day care of TCM TCM herbal powder three times a day

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 20 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: \- The medical records since June 2017 to December 2019 needed to meet the following criterial: (1)age\>20 years old, (2)diagnosis meet ICD10:C00.0-C97 (3) needed to do Taiwan brief version of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events Version4.0(Taiwan brief version scale of CTCAE), scale of the Taiwanese Version of the Brief Fatigue Inventory(BFI-T) and scale of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF(WHOQOL-BREF), and those scales needed to be done pretest when patient came to the clinics and posttest when case end. Exclusion Criteria: \- The subjects will be excluded if they do not complete pretest and posttest of the following scales:(1) Taiwan brief version scale of CTCAE, (2) BFI-T scale (3) WHOQOL-BREF scale

Locations (1)

Taipei city hospital

Taipei, Taiwan

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

scale of Taiwan brief version of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events Version4.0(Taiwan brief version scale of CTCAE)

for chemotherapy related adverse effects in Taiwan

Time frame: 2020

Secondary Outcomes

scale of the Taiwanese Version of the Brief Fatigue Inventory(BFI-T)

evaluate the level of fatique

Time frame: 2020

scale of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF(WHOQOL-BREF)

evaluate QOL

Time frame: 2020

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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