Review of randomised controlled trials of traditional Chinese medicine

Comparison of hand searched trials with trials of traditional Chinese medicine found in electronic databases (which hold journals of conventional medicine too) shows that journals of conventional medicine in China published about a quarter of the number randomised controlled trials published in jour...

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Published in:BMJ 1999-07, Vol.319 (7203), p.160-161
Main Authors: Tang, Jin-Ling, Zhan, Si-Yan, Ernst, Edzard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acupuncture
Chinese medicine
Confidence intervals
Data collection
Decision making
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Experimentation
Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Methods
Myocardial ischemia
Quality
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Strokes
Systematic review
Traditional Chinese medicine
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Summary:Comparison of hand searched trials with trials of traditional Chinese medicine found in electronic databases (which hold journals of conventional medicine too) shows that journals of conventional medicine in China published about a quarter of the number randomised controlled trials published in journals of traditional Chinese medicine. [...]almost 10 000 randomised controlled trials were published in China before 1997. Treatments to be tested should be selected so that potentially effective and important treatments are evaluated first The best evidence should be systematically reviewed, summarised, and disseminated, which in turn would lead to evidence based decision making in traditional Chinese medicine. 5 Acknowledgement: Contributors: J-LT initiated and oversaw the project, wrote the paper, contributed to the project design, data analysis, and interpretation, and is the guarantor for the paper.
ISSN:0959-8138
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.319.7203.160