Herbal Medicine Prescriptions for Functional Dyspepsia: A Nationwide Population-Based Study in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Herbal medicine is widely used for the treatment of functional dyspepsia (FD) in East Asian countries. We aimed to analyze the prescription patterns of herbal medicine for patients with FD in Korean medicine clinical settings through the analysis of national health insurance claims data over the past 10 years and to check how herbal medicine has been used for FD within the scope of national health insurance.

Methods

All prescription data claimed to the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service with the diagnosis of FD and herbal medicine prescriptions in 2010-2019 were reviewed. We estimated the demographics, clinical characteristics, and annual prescription amount and cost of each herbal medicine. Frequent comorbidities of FD were investigated by analyzing t

SUBMITTER: Lee B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8817847 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature