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[Evaluation on methodological problems in reports concerning quantitative analysis of syndrome differentiation of
Bi-Cang Chen1, Qiu-Ying Wu, Cheng-Bin Xiang
1Second Department of Internal Medicine, Quanzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fujian College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Quanzhou, Fujian Province 362000, China.
Objective:
To evaluate the quality of reports published in recent 10 years in China about quantitative analysis of syndrome differentiation for diabetes mellitus (DM) in order to explore the methodological problems in these reports and find possible solutions.
Methods:
The main medical literature databases in China were searched. Thirty-one articles were included and evaluated by the principles of clinical epidemiology.
Results:
There were many mistakes and deficiencies in these articles, such as clinical trial designs, diagnosis criteria for DM, standards of syndrome differentiation of DM, case inclusive and exclusive criteria, sample size and estimation, data comparability and statistical methods.
Conclusion:
It is necessary and important to improve the quality of reports concerning quantitative analysis of syndrome differentiation of DM in light of the principles of clinical epidemiology.
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