Quality assessment of the reporting of randomized controlled trials of traditional chinese medicine for chronic fatigue syndrome

Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 385-391

  Shen, Jin ^a   Tang, Xi ^b   Zou, Kun ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chronicfatigue syndrome; Methodology; Randomized controlled trial; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

CHINESE DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249882744     PISSN: 16722531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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