Practitioners' perspectives on evaluating treatment outcomes in traditional Chinese medicine

• Main Authors: Yan-Hong Zhang (Author), Jing Lv (Author), Wei Gao (Author), Jun Li (Author), Ji-Qian Fang (Author), Li-Yun He (Author), Bao-Yan Liu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background There are no generally accepted standards for evaluation of treatment outcomes in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Pattern differentiation and individual treatments are recognized as the most distinguishing features of TCM. Therefore, how practitioners determine curative effec...