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| Quality analysis on articles in domestic journals about Acupunctue-moxibustion treatment of Cervicogenic headache |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2013.11.16 |
| Key Words
Cervicogenic headache;the medical treatment of Chinese medicine;literature quality analysis |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | ZHANG Kai | TCM and Acupunctue-moxibustion Physiotherapy Rehabilitation Center, No.464 Hospitol of Chinese People Liberation Army, Tianjin 300381, China | | LIU Yu | Department of Digest, No.464 Hospitol of Chinese People Liberation Army, Tianjin 300381, China | | JIANG Ge-li | TCM and Acupunctue-moxibustion Physiotherapy Rehabilitation Center, No.464 Hospitol of Chinese People Liberation Army, Tianjin 300381, China |
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| [Objective] To carry out a qualitative analysis on research design about the clinical treatment of Cervicogenic headache in domestic journals. [Methods] In accordance with the principle of clinical epidemiology, the scale in the literatures from 1979 to 2012 about the clinical evaluation on the treatment of Cervicogenic headache in the domestic journals was evaluated. Application settings, randomized control group application, blind method, withdraw from the case and follow-up, racial, estimation of sample size, diagnosis/inclusion/exclusion/effect evaluation criterion, TCM syndrome, adverse reactions, statistical method. And use the Jadad scale evaluation of the RCT document.[Results] The 73.0% of the literature used a randomized controlled trial, but the quality and reliability of randomdesign were poor the blind method was rarely used no any article mentioned the quantity of samples and the race of the patients. The 20.3% had no clear diagnostic criteria. The 96.9% of the literatures mentioned the therapeutic standard, but in 28 of them(43.8%) the standard was the self-worked. The 19 literatures used a clear statistical methods, but some of themmethod 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 Acupunctue-moxibustion treatment of Cervicogenic headache was not so high, and the experimental design and the statistical methods should to be enhanced. |
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