title: [Pondering the problems of clinical effect assessment of traditional Chinese medicine].
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.
authors.affiliation: Tianjin College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China. tjzhtcm@163.com
authors.forename: Jun-Ping
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Pei-Yong
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Zheng
mesh_terms: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008517:Phytotherapy; D036301:Qualitative Research; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal