Manheimer Eric, Berman Brian
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.
Complement Ther Med. 2003 Dec;11(4):268-71. doi: 10.1016/s0965-2299(03)00128-6.
Americans use CAM therapies now more than ever before, yet there is a shortage of accessible high-quality evidence from clinical trials to show which CAM therapies work best and for which conditions. The need for such evidence is great, not only among people with serious, chronic health conditions, but also among healthcare providers, who often require clinical trial evidence before recommending a medical treatment. For the last few years, the University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine has been working steadily to meet this need for information by identifying published clinical trials of alternative therapies, summarizing these into rigorous scientific reviews, and disseminating these reviews to the general public and to healthcare providers. In May 2003, the Center was awarded a large 4-year research grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) to support and extend this important work.
美国人现在比以往任何时候都更频繁地使用补充和替代医学（CAM）疗法，然而，临床试验中缺乏可获取的高质量证据来表明哪种CAM疗法效果最佳以及适用于哪些病症。不仅患有严重慢性健康问题的人群急需此类证据，医疗保健提供者也同样需要，因为他们在推荐某种医疗治疗之前通常需要临床试验证据。在过去几年里，马里兰大学整合医学中心一直在稳步努力满足这一信息需求，方法是识别已发表的替代疗法临床试验，将其总结为严谨的科学综述，并将这些综述传播给普通公众和医疗保健提供者。2003年5月，该中心获得了美国国立卫生研究院补充和替代医学国家中心（NCCAM）为期四年的大额研究资助，以支持和扩展这项重要工作。
