Evidence-based Research Methods for Chinese Medicine

✍ Scribed by Siu-wai Leung, Hao Hu (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a practical guide to the evidence-based medicine (EBM) research methods that are applicable to Chinese medicine (CM). It includes 3 parts: clinical research, healthcare data research and laboratory research. In each chapter, it explains how to acquire, analyze and evaluate a specific kind of CM research result. Authors exemplify the most important methods with successful cases in transforming reliable data into new knowledge of CM. This book emphasizes the requirements for CM researchers to design and conduct CM studies by following the best available principles, standards and guidelines.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Methodology for Clinical Study Investigating Chinese Medicine....Pages 11-37
Effectiveness Assessment of Chinese Medicine in Clinical Research....Pages 39-53
Placebo-Controlled Trials in Acupuncture: Problems and Solutions....Pages 55-64
Qualitative Interview for Chinese Medicine Research: Challenges and Prospects....Pages 65-77
A Need for Standard Data Collection Procedure in Studies on Traditional Chinese Medicine....Pages 79-87
Methods for Assessment of Interrater Reliability for Diagnosis and Intervention in Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies....Pages 89-111
Bioinformatics for Molecular Authentication of Chinese Medicinal Materials....Pages 113-130
Proteomic Response Fingerprinting (ProReF) for Rapid Identification of Protein Targets for Chinese Medicine....Pages 131-145
Chinese Medicines in Neurological Diseases: Pharmacological Perspective....Pages 147-185
Effects of Chinese Medicinal Components on Chemokine Receptors: Theory, Results, and Methodology....Pages 187-197

✦ Subjects

Complementary & Alternative Medicine;Internal Medicine;Pharmacology/Toxicology