Traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of acute respiratory tract infections()

AIMS: To review the evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews for the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicinal (TCM) herbs for treating acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) and to discuss the limitations of current clinical trials of TCM. FINDINGS: Evidence from six Cochrane systematic r...

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Autores principales: Wu, Taixiang, Yang, Xunzhe, Zeng, Xiaoxi, Poole, Phillippa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7134919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18590956
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2008.03.015
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Yang, Xunzhe
Zeng, Xiaoxi
Poole, Phillippa
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description AIMS: To review the evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews for the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicinal (TCM) herbs for treating acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) and to discuss the limitations of current clinical trials of TCM. FINDINGS: Evidence from six Cochrane systematic reviews was weak owing to the lack of high-quality TCM trials. Limitations were usually due to biases that influenced the validity of results. CONCLUSIONS: TCM is widely used for treating ARTIs. However, none of the identified studies has been well designed or conducted. In this overview, we suggest that clinical trials of TCM for ARTIs need to be re-run in accordance with internationally recognized standards.
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spelling pubmed-71349192020-04-08 Traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of acute respiratory tract infections() Wu, Taixiang Yang, Xunzhe Zeng, Xiaoxi Poole, Phillippa Respir Med Article AIMS: To review the evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews for the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicinal (TCM) herbs for treating acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) and to discuss the limitations of current clinical trials of TCM. FINDINGS: Evidence from six Cochrane systematic reviews was weak owing to the lack of high-quality TCM trials. Limitations were usually due to biases that influenced the validity of results. CONCLUSIONS: TCM is widely used for treating ARTIs. However, none of the identified studies has been well designed or conducted. In this overview, we suggest that clinical trials of TCM for ARTIs need to be re-run in accordance with internationally recognized standards. Elsevier Ltd. 2008-08 2008-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7134919/ /pubmed/18590956 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2008.03.015 Text en Copyright © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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