Publications by authors named "Yan-ke Ai"
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- The study aims to determine the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) in bowel movement frequency for patients with chronic severe functional constipation undergoing acupuncture treatment.
- It involves 813 patients from two randomized controlled trials and utilizes statistical methods to assess changes in weekly complete spontaneous bowel movements (CSBM) and spontaneous bowel movements (SBM).
- The findings indicate that an increase of at least 1.3 CSBM and 1.6 SBM per week post-treatment is clinically significant, highlighting the effectiveness of acupuncture for this condition.
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- The text highlights issues in systematic reviews and meta-analyses related to acupuncture-moxibustion, focusing on unclear definitions and methodological errors.
- It emphasizes the importance of using the PICOS framework to formulate specific research questions tailored to the characteristics of acupuncture-moxibustion.
- The paper identifies common methodological problems, such as literature retrieval and bias assessment, and proposes solutions to enhance the quality of future studies.
Biological, psychological and sociological model of medicine substantializes the old model lacking the social humane attributes. The new medical model makes people take medical anthropology into research and highly evaluate traditional medical system. Cultural anthropology of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is part of medical anthropology with three major characteristics: wide research scope, specificity, and integration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffect of clinical intervention on human body is multistage and multifaceted, involving physiology, psychology, social function and the surrounding resources, etc. Therefore, the range of clinical outcome assessment includes patient, his or her family and care giver. The evaluation of clinical intervention mainly focuses on its effectiveness, safety and health economics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Methods of selecting outcome variables for clinical intervention].
Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Xue Bao
January 2007
Abstract: There are two stages for selecting the clinical intervention outcome variables. One is crude collection and the other is precise collection. The selection methods include brainstorming method, Delphi method, Gordon method, systematic review, systematic analysis method, mathematic model method and so on.
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