Wieland L Susan, Manheimer Eric, Berman Brian M
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.
Altern Ther Health Med. 2011 Mar-Apr;17(2):50-9.
During the past decade, the Cochrane Collaboration has been an increasingly important source of information on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies. From 2007 to 2008, the Cochrane CAM Field developed a topics list that allowed us to categorize all 396 Cochrane reviews related to CAM (as of The Cochrane Library, Issue 4, 2009). This topics list is an advance in making Cochrane reviews on CAM topics accessible to the public. In this article, we discuss challenges in developing the topics list, including developing an operational efinition of CAM, deciding which reviews should be included within the CAM Field's scope, developing the structured list of CAM Field-specific topics, and determining where in the topics list the reviews should be placed. Although aspects of our operational definition of CAM are open to revision, a standardized definition provides us with an objective, reproducible, and systematic method for defining and classifying CAM therapies.
在过去十年中,考科蓝协作网已日益成为补充和替代医学(CAM)疗法信息的重要来源。2007年至2008年期间,考科蓝补充和替代医学领域制定了一个主题列表,使我们能够对与补充和替代医学相关的所有396篇考科蓝综述进行分类(截至《考科蓝图书馆》2009年第4期)。这个主题列表在让公众能够获取关于补充和替代医学主题的考科蓝综述方面是一个进步。在本文中,我们讨论了制定主题列表过程中遇到的挑战,包括制定补充和替代医学的操作性定义、决定哪些综述应纳入补充和替代医学领域的范围、制定补充和替代医学领域特定主题的结构化列表,以及确定综述应在主题列表中的位置。虽然我们对补充和替代医学的操作性定义的某些方面有待修订,但标准化定义为我们提供了一种客观、可重复且系统的方法来定义和分类补充和替代医学疗法。