The Quality of Reporting of Randomized Controlled Trials of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Survey of 13 Randomly Selected Journals from Mainland China

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1456-1467

  Wang, Gang ^a   Mao, Bing ^a   Xiong, Ze Yu ^b   Fan, Tao ^a   Chen, Xiao Dong ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Liu, Guan Jian ^a   Liu, Jia ^c   Guo, Jia ^a   Chang, Jing ^a   Wu, Tai Xiang ^a   Li, Ting Qian ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

CONSORT statement; randomized controlled trial; reporting quality; traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SURVEY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

CHINA; HUMANS; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PERIODICALS; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 34548295866     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2007.07.023     Document Type: Article

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