Evaluation of clinical application of Korean medicine standard clinical pathway in a public hospital

Table 4 Auxiliary variable after correcting for confounding variables

	Neck pain			Shoulder pain
	Number of visits	Total medical expenses	NRS change	Number of visits	Total medical expenses	NRS change
Sex (reference male)	0.05 ± 0.65	0.37 ± 0.32	-0.79 ± 0.66	-0.08 ± 0.33	-0.14 ± 0.28	1.51 ± 0.48b
Age (years) (reference under 65)	0.26 ± 0.30	0.16 ± 0.35	0.35 ± 0.93	0.01 ± 0.41	-0.22 ± 0.41	-0.70 ± 0.62
Symptom intensity (NRS)	0.01 ± 0.07	0.03 ± 0.08	-0.33 ± 0.19	0.02 ± 0.08	-0.04 ± 0.07	-0.61 ± 0.14b
Severity	0.17 ± 0.47	0.06 ± 0.53	1.45 ± 1.29	2.11 ± 0.45b	1.16 ± 0.46b	2.11 ± 1.21
Groups	-0.30 ± 0.25	-0.10 ± 0.27	-1.74 ± 0.64b	-1.52 ± 0.45b	-0.61 ± 0.31	-0.44 ± 0.49
Intercept	1.41 ± 0.65	11.25 ± 0.88c	4.21 ± 1.86b	1.48 ± 0.44b	12.36 ± 0.36b	0.97 ± 0.71

^bP < 0.01.

^cP < 0.001.

NRS: Numerical rating scale.