Assessing Clinical Effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine Interventions: Moving Beyond Randomized Controlled Trials

Front Pharmacol. 2021 Sep 7:12:713071. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.713071. eCollection 2021.

¹ Chinese Evidence-Based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
² Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Chinese Internal Medicine of Ministry of Education, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.

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Keywords: Chinese patent medicine; clinical effects; clinical research methodology; integrative medicine; traditional Chinese medicine.