Finding Your Way Through the Forest -- A TCM Practitioner's Guide to Evaluating Research: Part 3.

Evidence based medicine is the prevailing paradigm of modern healthcare. However, practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) vary significantly in their ability to appraise and understand modern research. Part 3 of this series reviews the most important criteria for assessing research paper...

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Publicado en:Journal of Chinese Medicine (JCM) no. 129; pp. 48 - 57
Autor principal: Reid, Tony
Formato: tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Journal of Chinese Medicine Jun2022
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Sumario:Evidence based medicine is the prevailing paradigm of modern healthcare. However, practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) vary significantly in their ability to appraise and understand modern research. Part 3 of this series reviews the most important criteria for assessing research papers, so that practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine and other related disciplines are able to identify errors in medical research in order to inform treatment and assist their patients. A summary checklist is included to guide readers when assessing clinical research papers.