Evidence-based Research Methods for Chinese Medicine

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.



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.