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KMID : 0363420210350030043
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Journal of Korean Oriental Pediatrics
2021 Volume.35 No. 3 p.43 ~ p.52
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A Retrospective Study of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children Treated by Korean Medicine
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Park So-Hyun
Kim Ye-Ji
Park Sul-Gi
Lee Sun-Haeng
Lee Ji-Hong
Park Yong-Seok
Kim Jae-Hyun
Chang Gyu-Tae
Lee Jin-Yong
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Abstract
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Objectives This study aimed to analyze the clinical characteristics of 63 patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who received Korean medicine treatment.
Methods This study identified and retrospectively reviewed the first visit records and clinical characteristics of all of the patients who visited the Kyung Hee University Korean Medicine Hospital and Kyung Hee University Korean Medicine Hospital at Gangdong in South Korea with ASD as their chief complaints. The herbal medicines that were prescribed according to the patient's symptoms were analyzed by separating them into categories.
Results The data of 83 children with ASD were collected. Among them, the primary medical record charts of 63 patients were reviewed. Additional analysis was performed for 56 patients who were treated with herbal medicine. Through a retrospective chart review, the patients' clinical characteristics and the tendency of the prescribed herbal medicine was identified.
Conclusions This study was conducted to provide preliminary data that proposes Korean medicine as a new alternative medical treatment. Our study is meaningful as it used the demographic and clinical records of 63 patients with ASD in Korea who visited an Korean medicine hospital in the last 11 years to identify tendencies and analyzed the prescriptions of two or more Korean medicine pediatricians.
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KEYWORD
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Herbal medicine, Autism spectrum disorder, Retrospective chart review, Korean medicine
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