Chinese medicine treatment of uterine fibroids on randomized controlled trials evaluating the quality of the literature.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 17 Chinese medicine treatment of uterine fibroids on randomized controlled trials evaluating the quality of the literature Of: Jian Feng Xie Ping Zhang Ying Wen Haiying Jiang Haiyan Qiao Feng Xia Ni [Keywords:] traditional Chinese medicine therapy of uterine fibroids offer the quality of randomized controlled trials evaluating Uterine fibroids (uterus myoma) is the female reproductive system is the most common benign tumor, the “first gynecological tumors,” said the real incidence of hard statistics. Many patients with clinical symptoms or because of fibroids because of smaller and not easy to find. According to the autopsy material (Novak, Woodruff) found that women over the age of 30 about 20% of the potential size of uterine fibroids, ranging from [1]. epidemiologic data indicate that the incidence of uterine fibroids was constantly in recent years rising, and younger age of onset tends to [2]. In recent years, a large number of clinical studies reported in the medical treatment of uterine fibroids do have effect. However, clinical studies, they found that Chinese medicine clinical research in the methodology is still very weak in this critical area, such as the inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria are not clear, criteria of efficacy not uniform, rigorous randomized controlled clinical research literature less and so on. As the norms of clinical trials is poor, the lack of clinical efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine objective and scientific evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of uterine fibroids can not confirm the clinical efficacy and safety, serious extension of the conclusions of the study. The study published in 1989-2006 collected in the medical treatment of uterine fibroids on the clinical research literature, the general situation from the literature, diagnosis, inclusion, exclusion criteria, criteria of efficacy, study design (group balance between, randomized, blinded, allocation concealm