The present situation of clinical application of
Acupuncture ; Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; Moxibustion

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Acupuncture ; Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; Qi ; Sensation

The paper introduced the experiences of quality management in the implementation of multi-center acupuncture clinical trials and the keys in training acupuncture operators. The process management was explained in view of the division of labor for researchers, protocol learning and the communication among sub-centers. Besides, specificity links of acupuncture research were summarized, i.e. meaning implementation brief of acupuncture operation training, control for quantity of stimulus in acupuncture and doctor-patient communication. It is anticipated to provide a valuable reference for the quality control and improvement of multi-center acupuncture clinical trial in future.
Acupuncture Therapy ; Clinical Trials as Topic ; Humans ; Multicenter Studies as Topic ; Quality Control

The literature of health economic evaluation study in the field of acupuncture in China was systematically summarized and analyzed, and the existing problems in the current research were discussed from the aspects of research perspective, cost calculation scope, data analysis method selection. Moreover, the key points of the health economic evaluation research were summarized, and the research objectives, the relationship between the expected research results and data analysis methods and the process of thinking were sorted out, and several suggestions for research report writing were proposed, aiming to provide a reference for the quality improvement of the acupuncture health economic evaluation research in China.
Acupuncture ; Acupuncture Therapy ; China ; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; Publications