study designs of randomized controlled trials not based on chinese medicine theory are improper研究随机对照试验的设计不是基于中医理论是不当的.pdf

Chinese Medicine BioMed Central Commentary Open Access Study designs of randomized controlled trials not based on Chinese medicine theory are improper 1 2 3 4 4 Jian Yan* , Veronica F Engle , Yuxin He , Yan Jiao and Weikuan Gu Address: 1Molecular Resource Center, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA, 2Department of Primary Care Nursing and Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA, 3Acupuncture Chinese Medical Center, Austin, TX 78757, USA and 4Department of Orthopedics Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA Email: Jian Yan* - jyan1@; Veronica F Engle - vengle@; Yuxin He - Dryuxinhe@; Yan Jiao - yjiao2@; Weikuan Gu - wgu@ * Corresponding author Published: 25 February 2009 Received: 7 July 2006 Accepted: 25 February 2009 Chinese Medicine 2009, 4:3 doi:10.1186/1749-8546-4-3 This article is available from: /content/4/1/3 © 2009 Yan et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Current biomedical research methods to evaluate the efficacy of Chinese medicine interventions are often conceptually incompatible with the theory and clinical practice of