Clinical trial NCT04443738: Long Term Follow up of Spinal Stenosis Inpatients Treated With Korean Integrative Medicine Treatment.
Official title: Long Term Follow up of Spinal Stenosis Inpatients Treated With Korean Integrative Medicine Treatment.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Spinal Stenosis Lumbar
Medicine, Korean Traditional
Keywords: acupuncture therapy
herbal medicine
Lead sponsor: Jaseng Medical Foundation
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-06-23
Enrollment: 378
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The subjects for study are patients diagnosed with spinal stenosis and who have been admitted to four Jaseng Hospital of Korean medicine (Gangnam, Bucheon, Daejeon, and Haeundae) for 2015.01-2018.12.

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to reveal the effectiveness and safety of integrative Korean medicine for spinal stenosis by observation inpatients treated with integrative Korean medicine.

Detailed description: This study is a prospective observational study. The subjects for study are patients diagnosed with spinal stenosis and who have been admitted to four Jaseng Hospital of Korean medicine (Gangnam, Bucheon, Daejeon, and Haeundae) for 2015.01-2018.12.

Medical records of selected patients will be analyzed, and telephone surveys will be conducted for each patient. The survey questions are Numeric rating scale (NRS), Oswestry disability index (ODI), quality of life, and Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC), etc.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients diagnosed with spinal stenosis by an Korean medicine doctor and was admitted to Jaseng hospital of Korean medicien.
* Patients undergone MRI readings of central spinal stenosis
* Patients have no communication problems
* Patients have agreed to participate the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients who have been diagnosed with certain serious diseases that may cause back pain or neck pain (tumor metastases to the spine, acute fractures, spinal dislocations, and so on)
* Patient hospitalized for pain caused by a traffic accident
* Patients with serious mental illness
* Patients deemed unable to participate in the clinical research by other researchers

Primary outcomes:
measure: Numeric rating scale (NRS)
timeFrame: Finish survey by August 2020
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Oswestry disability index (ODI)
timeFrame: Finish survey by August 2020
measure: The five level version of EuroQol-5 Dimension (EQ-5D)
timeFrame: Finish survey by August 2020
measure: Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC)
timeFrame: Finish survey by August 2020
measure: Spine surgery
timeFrame: Finish survey by August 2020
measure: Current symptoms
timeFrame: Finish survey by August 2020
measure: Treatment after discharge
timeFrame: Finish survey by August 2020
measure: hanbangchilyo manjogdo 9/5000 Satisfaction with integrative Korean medicine
timeFrame: Finish survey by August 2020
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Seoul
country: Korea, Republic of
facility: Jaseng Medical Foundation
Study officials:
affiliation: Jaseng Medical Foundation
name: In-Hyuk Ha, Dr.
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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