title: The reporting quality assessment of complex interventions' articles in traditional chinese medicine.
abstract: Objective. To realize the current situation and problems of complex interventions' clinical trials. Methods. Searching at Chinese Journal Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine and Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine from 2007 to 2012 by hand, we identified complex interventions' articles, and then we used the proposed criteria of complex interventions and CONSORT FOR TCM to evaluate. Results. All data is presented as counts with percentages and details in tables. Conclusion. Our evaluation presented that complex interventions have many defects: the selection of the intervention's components lacks rationale, complex interventions were short of fundamental researches, components' interactions were ambiguous, and the advantages of complex interventions were not mentioned. Furthermore, explanation of sample size, blind, quality control, ethical approval, and inform consent were neglected in different degrees.
authors: Clinical Evaluation Center, Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, Beijing 100053, China.
authors: Meng
authors: M
authors: Wu
authors: Jingqing
authors: J
authors: Hu
authors: Biaoyan
authors: B
authors: Liu
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