Lao Lixing
Center for Integrative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Xue Bao. 2004 Nov;2(6):402-6. doi: 10.3736/jcim20040601.
Evidence based medicine (EBM) has drawn the attention of the medical community around the world and is rapidly becoming the standard in medical research. EBM requires both rigorous clinical trial research design, including adequate randomization and appropriate control, and accurate and thorough reporting of the findings of trials. Despite China's active research program, the majority of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinical research in the Chinese literature fails to meet world standards of clinical research reporting, largely due to insufficient and inadequate reporting. Because of rising world demand for information on TCM research, enhancing the quality of research reporting in Chinese journals is imperative. Quality of reporting is important in all aspects of a manuscript, including the introduction/background, materials and methods, results, and discussion/conclusion sections. TCM journal editors, who serve as gatekeepers of quality, must encourage higher quality clinical research reporting by setting and upholding publication standards.
循证医学（EBM）已引起全球医学界的关注，并正迅速成为医学研究的标准。循证医学既需要严谨的临床试验研究设计，包括充分的随机化和适当的对照，也需要对试验结果进行准确、全面的报告。尽管中国有积极的研究项目，但中国文献中大多数中医（TCM）临床研究未能达到临床研究报告的世界标准，这主要是由于报告不足和不充分。由于全球对中医研究信息的需求不断增加，提高中文期刊的研究报告质量势在必行。报告质量在稿件的各个方面都很重要，包括引言/背景、材料与方法、结果以及讨论/结论部分。作为质量把关人的中医期刊编辑，必须通过设定和坚持出版标准来鼓励更高质量的临床研究报告。
