title: [Preliminary exploration on building a soft index dependent efficacy evaluation mode of Chinese medicine].
abstract: Chinese medical soft indexes provided by the four diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are the important basis for syndrome differentiation and treatment. Whereas, the difficulty in scientific measurement and objective evaluation of these soft indexes is intensified due to the complexity and nonlinearity of Chinese medical practice and thinking of diagnosis and treatment, as well as the subjectivity and complexity hold by the person, who plays as the host and the guest of practice and research. Referring to the knowledge and technique of sociology, psychology and statistics, it is tried, in this study, to probe in the basic processes for soft index dependent efficacy evaluation of TCM, and build its mode preliminarily, i.e. , standardization - screening and reconstruction - measurement - weighing and quantification - evaluation.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Basic Research of Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing.
authors.forename: Yan-Ming
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Yong-Yan
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hai-Yin
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Piao
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D012107:Research Design; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires