Overview
Provides systematic methodology guidelines to delineate the complexity of Chinese medicine
Presents a collection of practical scientific methods and examples contributed by experienced researchers
Offers expert advice on conducting productive research into Chinese medicine
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book is a practical guide to the evidence-based medicine (EBM) research methods that are applicable to Chinese medicine (CM). It includes 3 parts: clinical research, healthcare data research and laboratory research. In each chapter, it explains how to acquire, analyze and evaluate a specific kind of CM research result. Authors exemplify the most important methods with successful cases in transforming reliable data into new knowledge of CM. This book emphasizes the requirements for CM researchers to design and conduct CM studies by following the best available principles, standards and guidelines.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Editor Siu-wai Leung is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal: Chinese Medicine. He and Associate Professor Hao Hu are from Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evidence-based Research Methods for Chinese Medicine
Editors: Siu-wai Leung, Hao Hu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2290-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2289-0Published: 08 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9583-2Published: 05 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2290-6Published: 24 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 197
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pharmacology/Toxicology