title: [Thinking on the efficacy evaluation of TCM for treatment of heart failure].
abstract: Through dissertating the current status and trend in efficacy evaluation of traditional and Western medicine for treatment of heart failure, aiming at the difference between TCM and Western medicine in efficacy evaluation and existent problems for diagnosis and treatment of heart failure. The authors proposed to establish a method for evaluating TCM clinical studies, a systematic method and thinking of indexes rating, depending upon the guidance of clinical methodologies of systematology, clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine, to make the efficacy evaluation founded upon the superiority of TCM and meeting to the international requisition, thus to facilitate the goingahead of TCM to the world.
authors.affiliation: Ming-jun Heart Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan TCM College, Zhengzhou. wyxchzhq@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Yong-xia
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ming-jun
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Zhu