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SUN Ziwei,WANG Ji,LI Lingru,et al.How to Improve the Quality of Clinical Researches on Traditional Chinese Medicine for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2022,63(11):1032-1036.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2022.11.008.
How to Improve the Quality of Clinical Researches on Traditional Chinese Medicine for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been used in the early stage of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and has played a positive role in the whole process and in all directions, giving full play to the strengths of TCM. When analyzing the existing researches on TCM for COVID-19, however, it was found that the clinical evidence of the existing researches were at a relatively low level. Therefore, this paper proposed that more attention should be paid to “four interpretations” and “one promotion”, that was, interpreting the role of TCM in anti-virus, immune regulation, suppression of inflammatory factor storms, and improvement of pathological damage, so as to improve the quality of clinical researches on TCM and the level of evidence. Simultaneously, the actual problems in the clinical researches of TCM, as well as the characteristics of different stages of COVID-19 are put focus on, and the problems and countermeasures are summarized. It is put forward that the clinical research methods should be selected rationally from the aspects of identifying the research objectives and target population, determining intervention and control measures and variables, selecting therapeutic outcomes, controlling clinical quality and meeting ethical requirements. Furthermore, this paper may provide ideas for improving the quality of clinical researches of TCM and promoting the recognition of TCM across the world.
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