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Review of randomised controlled trials of traditional Chinese medicine
- Source :
- BMJ. 319:160-161
- Publication Year :
- 1999
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 1999.
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Abstract
- Many randomised controlled trials have been conducted in China to evaluate the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine, but much of the information is inaccessible to Western doctors. We estimated the total number of randomised controlled trials published in China and identified problems in applying such methodology to the evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine, which would serve as preparatory work for systematic review and dissemination of the randomised evidence for such medicine. We randomly selected 28 journals using stratified sampling from a total of 100 Chinese journals of traditional Chinese medicine (4 national, 10 university, 10 provincial or regional, and 4 specialist journals). After special training, eight fifth year medical students (working in pairs) hand searched all the issues of the journals published before 1 January 1997 to identify randomised controlled trials. Discrepancies were settled by one of the principal investigators (S-YZ). Data on methodological quality of randomised controlled trials were extracted from 414 full length articles …
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Traditional medicine
business.industry
General Engineering
Alternative medicine
Information Storage and Retrieval
General Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine
Stratified sampling
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Family medicine
Papers
medicine
Humans
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Methodological quality
China
business
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
General Environmental Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14685833 and 09598138
- Volume :
- 319
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMJ
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a6e4a6493bb1c213d9a48db9b4ba972a