Supplementary file 1_Chinese herbal medicine as adjunct therapy improves clinical recovery

A retrospective cohort study of 372 older adults admitted between 1 January 2024 and 30 June 2024 at the Second Hospital of Shandong University. The dataset, authored by Chunyan Wang and shared under CC-BY-4.0, compares outcomes for patients receiving Chinese herbal medicine as adjunct therapy versus conventional treatment. It includes metrics on hospital stay, fever duration, symptom recovery, and multidrug-resistant bacterial load.

Use Cases

• Compare hospital stay duration and febrile period between treatment groups based on the described clinical outcomes.
• Analyze the association between Chinese herbal medicine and reductions in multidrug-resistant bacterial counts based on the MDR-related indicators.
• Investigate differential treatment effects in subgroups such as frail or immunocompromised patients based on the subgroup analysis mentioned.
• Assess the robustness of clinical findings using propensity score matching and E-value analysis techniques described in the methods.

Strengths

• Includes data from 372 patient records, providing a substantive cohort for analysis.
• Covers a defined 6-month period from January to June 2024, offering temporal specificity.
• Study design employed propensity score matching and E-value analysis to address confounding, as described in the methods.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain analytical tasks.
• Data is sourced from a single hospital in China, which may limit generalizability to other populations.

Provenance

Source

Department of Geriatrics, the Second Hospital of Shandong University, China.

Collection Method

Retrospective cohort study; data retrieved from the hospital's information system.

Time Range

1 January 2024 to 30 June 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 04:24:50; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China (specific to Shandong province).