Transparently reporting adverse effects of traditional Chinese medicine interventions in randomized controlled trials.
Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Xue Bao
; 6(9): 881-6, 2008 Sep.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-18782527
ABSTRACT
Although all Chinese materia medica (CMM) come from nature, CMM interventions have both therapeutic effects and adverse effects (AEs). Normally, AEs in randomized controlled trial (RCT) with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) could be divided into five types as follows 1) AEs under proper TCM principles and guidelines, such as the toxicity (acute and chronic) and allergy; 2) AEs due to improper usage without following TCM principles, involving without following the TCM therapeutic principles, over-dosage, improper processing and preparation methods, improper formula strategy, etc; 3) AEs due to contamination in CMM, such as heavy metal and pesticides contaminations in Chinese herbal medicine interventions, and intentional or unintentional contamination with drug(s); 4) AEs due to replacement of CMMs; 5) AEs due to drug-herb interaction. AEs of TCM should be treated properly. Overestimation or underestimation about AEs of TCM intervention will bring a wrong message to patients and health care providers. In order to give readers a more comprehensive understanding about the safety issue of study intervention, Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) for TCM should involve the background information on side effects of each CMM constituents and/or the study intervention, specific outcome assessment on AEs, the details of reported AEs and the interpretation of the AEs occurrence in a structural RCT report.
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Eixos temáticos:
Pesquisa_clinica
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Medicamentos de Ervas Chinesas
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Materia Medica
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Ensaios Clínicos Controlados Aleatórios como Assunto
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Medicina Tradicional Chinesa
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Diagnostic_studies
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Guideline
Limite:
Humans
País como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2008
Tipo de documento:
Article