[Evaluation on effect of integrative medical treatment on quality of life of rehabilitation stage in 85 patients with SARS].
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the effect of integrative medical treatment (IMT) with serial Chinese recipes on quality of life (QOF) of rehabilitation stage in SARS patients.


METHODS
Eighty-five SARS patients of rehabilitation stage were enrolled in the clinical study. They were divided into the IMT group (62 patients received serial Chinese recipes and western medicine) and the control group (23 patients received western medicine alone). The serial Chinese recipes were given according to patients' syndrome, one dose per day for oral intake for 3 weeks. QOF scoring in patients was observed.


RESULTS
QOF scoring in the IMT group before treatment was not significantly different from that in the control group. After 3 weeks treatment, it improved to some extent in both groups, but the improvement in the IMT group was superior to that in the control group in respect of total score and score of psychologic emotional factors.


CONCLUSIONS
Serial Chinese recipe could improve QOF of rehabilitation stage in SARS patients.
Bian
Yong-jun
YJ
Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of TCM, Beijing 100053.
Qi
Wen-sheng
WS
Song
Qing-qiao
QQ
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003289:Convalescence; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015242:Ofloxacin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008517:Phytotherapy; D011788:Quality of Life; D012254:Ribavirin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000276:immunology / Q000534:rehabilitation
D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D012254:Ribavirin; D015242:Ofloxacin