A critical analysis of professional and academic publications on traditional Chinese medicine in China.
An open competition for scientific reports on Chinese medicine invited enthusiastic subscriptions of over 10,000 manuscripts. Three categories were separated viz, clinical studies, literature review and laboratory studies. Reports of very high quality were found among the literature review group. Clinical studies appeared to be generally weak; very few follow the evidence-based approach or pass the test of biometa-analysis.
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Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin. pingcleung@cuhk.edu.hk
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D002681:China; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D011643:Publishing; D011786:Quality Control; D012107:Research Design