About this trial
This is a multicenter, prospective cohort study, with syndrome differentiation and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine as the exposure factor. Patients using syndrome differentiation of traditional Chinese medicine combined with conventional treatment of Western medicine are classified as the treatment cohort of Integrated Chinese and Western medicine, and patients using conventional treatment of Western medicine only are classified as the treatment cohort of Western medicine
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
It met the diagnostic criteria of severe pneumonia;
Age ≥ 18 years old, regardless of gender.
Voluntary treatment.
Sign the informed consent form.
Disqualifiers
Pregnant or lactating women;
Patients with mental illness who are unable to cooperate or unwilling to cooperate with follow-up;
Those who are participating in clinical trials of other drugs;
Known allergic to therapeutic drugs.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)
- non traditional Chinese medicine (non-TCM)