East meets West: current issues relevant to integrating Chinese medicine

This article describes the challenges that integration of Chinese medicine (CM) and biomedicine are likely to bring for improving safety, research, education, and cross-disciplinary communication. Potential strategies to meet these challenges are suggested, including the use of accessible language f...

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Autores principales: Wong, Emily Yen, Gaster, Barak, Lee, Sum Ping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22943066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8546-7-20
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spelling pubmed-34750572012-10-19 East meets West: current issues relevant to integrating Chinese medicine Wong, Emily Yen Gaster, Barak Lee, Sum Ping Chin Med Commentary This article describes the challenges that integration of Chinese medicine (CM) and biomedicine are likely to bring for improving safety, research, education, and cross-disciplinary communication. Potential strategies to meet these challenges are suggested, including the use of accessible language for the Western biomedical community, and further development of whole-system randomized controlled trials that support individualized treatment approaches. BioMed Central 2012-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3475057/ /pubmed/22943066 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8546-7-20 Text en Copyright ©2012 Wong et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475057/
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