Research Article

Effect of Integrative Chinese and Western Medicine Therapy on Long-Term Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure: A Real-World Study Including 394 Patients

Table 2

Survival table based on Kaplan–Meier method.

Average survival time (months)Median survival time (months)χ2

All patients, N = 39419.94 (18.40, 21.47)17.00 (13.91, 20.09)12.58<0.001
Integrative therapy, N = 18122.57 (20.50, 24.64)21.00 (14.54, 27.46)
Conventional therapy, N = 21317.42 (15.12, 19.73)14.00 (11.36, 16.63)

rank method was used to test the difference of survival curves between the two groups of patients.