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| Quality analysis on articles in domestic journals about medical treatment of bilious headache |
| Hits 1487 Download times 1623 Received:November 08, 2007 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2008.03.42 |
| Key Words
Migraine/head wind;the medical treatment of the Chinese medicine;literature quality analysis |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | YANG Cai-feng | Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | | CAO Qian | Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | | SHEN Yong-ming | Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China |
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| Abstract
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| [Objective] To carry out a qualitative analysis on research design about the clinical treatment of bilious headache in domestic journals. [Methods] In accordance with the principle of clinical epidemiology, the scale in the literatures from 1979 to 2006 about the clinical evaluation on the treatment of bilious headache in the domestic journals was evaluated. [Results] The 32.8% of the literature used a randomized controlled trial, but the quality and reliability of random design were poor; the blind method was rarely used; no any article mentioned the quantity of samples and the race of the patients; half of the literatures (50.2%) had no clear diagnostic criteria; 86.7% of the literatures mentioned the therapeutic standard, but in 795 of them (64.6%) the standard was the self-worked out; 18.9% of the literatures (233) used a clear statistical methods, but some of them method were less accurate. Other problems, requiring attention were the comparison of baseline between groups and the choice of indicators of the outcome, and so on. [Conclusions] Generally speaking, the quality in the TCM literatures about migraine treatment was not so high, and the experimental design and the statistical methods should to be enhanced. |
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