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Table 4 Annual outpatient costs per patient

From: Migraine treatment and healthcare costs: retrospective analysis of the China Health Insurance Research Association (CHIRA) database

N=824a

Costs, USDb

Mean (SD)

Median

Total annual costs per patient

46.5 (80.8)

20.6

 Medication costs

36.0 (73.7)

15.9

  Western medicine

13.5 (23.4)

6.5

  Traditional Chinese medicine

22.4 (43.3)

7.6

 Diagnostic and non-medication costsc

10.5 (30.7)

0.9

  1. USD United States dollars
  2. aPatients with a migraine-related outpatient visit in January of 2016 or 2017 and with ≥11 months of follow-up
  3. bExchange rate: 1 USD = 6.697 Chinese yuan renminbi
  4. cMigraine diagnostic costs included cranial computed tomography, cranial magnetic resonance imaging, transcranial Doppler ultrasonography, and electroencephalography; migraine non-medication costs included physical therapy and oxygen treatment