UCLA Center for East West Medicine; David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
J Tradit Complement Med. 2012 Jul;2(3):158-63. doi: 10.1016/s2225-4110(16)30095-5.
There are many challenges to developing an evidence base for Traditional Chinese Medicine and Integrative East-West Medicine. This article offers a review of these challenges alongside an introduction and review of several innovations in healthcare research that have successfully been applied to the study of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Integrative Medicine. Such innovations include developments in Whole Systems Research, Comparative Effectiveness Research, Health Services Research, and qualitative Social Sciences Research. Each of these approaches expands upon conventional approaches to clinical research and can also be combined with clinical trial data to yield a mixed-methods approach. We conclude with a commentary on the necessity for such mixed methods studies in the continued establishment of an evidence base for TCM and IM.
开发中医药和中西医结合证据基础面临许多挑战。本文综述了这些挑战，并介绍和回顾了一些已成功应用于中医药和整合医学研究的医疗保健研究创新。这些创新包括全系统研究、疗效比较研究、卫生服务研究和定性社会科学研究的发展。这些方法都扩展了传统的临床研究方法，也可以与临床试验数据相结合，形成混合方法。最后，我们对在继续建立中医药和整合医学证据基础方面进行这种混合方法研究的必要性进行了评论。
