title: [Key points of protocol design on clinical therapeutic research of traditional Chinese medicine].
abstract: Therapeutic effect is the core in clinic medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has certain advantages on clinical efficacy, but is still lack of reliable evidence. With the rapid development of evidence based medicine (EBM), more and more attention is paid on scientific evaluation of clinical efficacy increasingly. To carry out TCM clinical therapeutic research and to scientifically evaluate its efficacy has become a very important task for TCM development. Scientific and precise protocol design is the precondition for progressing the research and obtaining high quality evidences. The article puts stress on how to design the clinical therapeutic program of research on TCM in combining with characteristics of TCM.
authors.affiliation: Research Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin. tjzyxy@126.com
authors.forename: Jun-Hua
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Hong-Cai
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Shang
authors.forename: Guo-Hua
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Dai
mesh_terms: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D008517:Phytotherapy; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012107:Research Design
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal