Zhongguo Zhong xi yi jie he za zhi Zhongguo Zhongxiyi jiehe zazhi = Chinese journal of integrated traditional and Western medicine / Zhongguo Zhong xi yi jie he xue hui, Zhongguo Zhong yi yan jiu yuan zhu ban
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Zhongguo Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Za Zhi · Dec 2010
[Application of pragmatic clinical trials in clinical evaluation of Chinese medicine].
Since the evidence-based medicine (EBM) being evoked widely, to seek out the best evidence is becoming the pivotal step for the development of Chinese medicine (CM), and randomized controlled trial (RCT, at most times, it means explanatory clinical trial--ECT) has been accepted as the general golden standard for the evaluation of clinical intervention. However, it is noted that the traditional RCT (ECT) is unsuitable for the special characteristics of individual treatment in CM. ⋯ It is deemed that the pragmatic clinical trial (PCT) has the character just fitting for the evaluation. The feasibility of PCT in CM clinical evaluation is discussed in this paper in order to raise a new issue for the evaluation of CM effectiveness.