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From: Utilization of Chinese medicine for respiratory discomforts by patients with a medical history of tuberculosis in Taiwan

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Recruitment flow chart of subjects with tuberculosis (TB) from one million randomly selected samples in the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) from 1997 to 2000 in Taiwan. The inclusion criteria of patients (n = 7905) with history of TB (ICD-9-CM codes 010–018 and A02) were: (1) TB diagnosed between January 1, 1997 and December 31, 2010 (2) 18 years old or over (3) Clinical records for at least 2 months with complete demographic information (4) Record of treatment with first-line TB medication prescriptions. CM users for conditions other than respiratory discomforts (n = 3980) were excluded. Finally, a total of 3925 TB patients were categorized as: CM users for respiratory discomforts (n = 2051) and non-CM users (n = 1874)

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