Pondering the problems of clinical effect assessment of traditional Chinese medicine
- Author:
Junping ZHANG
;
Yun WANG
;
Peiyong ZHENG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Journal of Integrative Medicine
2005;3(3):181-3
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Clinical effect is of great importance to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and the rigorous and scientific methods for clinical effect assessment should be highly stressed in the clinical research of TCM. In this article, the authors analyzed the current status of the effect assessment of TCM and proposed some measures to improve the current effect assessment of TCM, in the hope of establishing an internationally accepted system of effect assessment reflecting the superiority and characteristics of TCM therapies.