Assessing the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials in traditional Chinese medicine

Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 880-887

  Mao, Bing ^a   Wang, Gang ^a   Fan, Tao ^a   Chen, Xiao Dong ^a   Liu, Jia ^b   Wang, Lei ^a   Chang, Jing ^a   Ma, Jian Xing ^a   Guo, Jia ^a   Fu, Juan Juan ^a   Li, Ting Qian ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

CONSORT statement; Quality of reporting; Randomized controlled trial; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 38049007850     PISSN: 16722531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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