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SUBMITTER: Ko MM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4916442 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ko Mi Mi MM Lee Ju Ah JA Cha Min Ho MH Kang Byoung-Kab BK Lee Myeong Soo MS
Scientific reports 20160622
In Korea, patients with stroke are commonly treated using traditional Korean medicine (TKM). The aim of this study was to provide information on the clinical characteristics of the pattern identification (PI) of stroke used in TKM. Stroke patients admitted to 15 TKM university hospitals from April 2005 through December 2013 were evaluated. The measured variables included the following factors as they related to the PI: (a) stroke etiology; (b) distribution of symptoms/signs; (c) physical charact ...[more]