ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2017
The Characteristics of TCM Clinical Trials: A Systematic Review of ClinicalTrials.gov.
Review in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
What it found
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed.
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- On the Methodological Aspects of the Clinical Trials for COVID-19 Conducted in the First Year of the Pandemic: A Descriptive Analysis.Statistics in biosciences · 2023Article
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- Characteristics of Depression Clinical Trials Registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.International journal of general medicine · 2022Article
- Registered Trials of Artificial Intelligence Conducted on Chronic Liver Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study on ClinicalTrials.gov.Disease markers · 2022Article
- Characteristic analysis of clinical trials for new traditional Chinese medicines in mainland China from 2013 to 2021.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Review
- Registered Trials on Artificial Intelligence Conducted in Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit: A Cross-Sectional Study on ClinicalTrials.gov.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- The Use of Multiple Primary Outcomes in Randomized Controlled Trials of Chinese Herbal Medicine.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021Review
- WHO Trial Registration Data Set (TRDS) extension for traditional Chinese medicine 2020: recommendations, explanation, and elaboration.BMC medical research methodology · 2020Article
- A critical examination of the main premises of Traditional Chinese Medicine.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2020Review
- Chinese herbal preparations for chronic heart failure: Study protocol for an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.Medicine · 2020Article
- Characteristics of COVID-19 Clinical Trials in China Based on the Registration Data on ChiCTR and ClinicalTrials.gov.Drug design, development and therapy · 2020Review
- Quality assessment of clinical trial registration with traditional Chinese medicine in WHO registries.BMJ open · 2019Article
- A Network Pharmacology-Based Approach to Investigate the Novel TCM Formula against Huntington's Disease and Validated by Support Vector Machine Model.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2018Article
- Are Published Cancer Care Trial Protocols With Traditional Chinese Medicine Interventions Concordant With SPIRIT-TCM Extension 2018? A Scoping Review on Published Trial Protocols Between 2019 and 2022.Integrative cancer therapiesArticle
- Analysis of AYUSH studies registered in clinical trials registry of India from 2009 to 2020.Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicineArticle
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of this review is to characterize current status of global TCM clinical trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov.
methodsWe examined all the trials registered within ClinicalTrials.gov up to 25 September 2015, focusing on study interventions to identify TCM-related trials, and extracted 1,270 TCM trials from the data set.
resultsOverall, 691 (54.4%) trials were acupuncture, and 454 (35.8%) trials were herbal medicines. Differences in TCM trial intervention types were also evident among the specific therapeutic areas. Among all trials, 55.7% that were small studies enrolled <100 subjects, and only 8.7% of completed studies had reported results of trials. As for the location, the United States was second to China in conducting the most TCM trials.
conclusionThis review is the first snapshot of the landscape of TCM clinical trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov, providing the basis for treatment and prevention of diseases within TCM and offering useful information that will guide future research on TCM.
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Registered trials
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