Outcome measurement for the effect of TCM

• 作 者: JiqianFang;
• 机 构: Department of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080,
• 出 处: 第五届21世纪中美医学论坛(The 5th Sino-US Symposium on Medicine in the 2
• 发表日期: 2007年期

　　This talk would start from a brief review of the methodology progress on evaluation of clinical effects in modern western medicine, that is, switching from focusing the "objective indexes" only, such as cure rate, incidence rate, fetal rate and laboratory tests, to the equal interest on the "subjective" ones, such as quality of life (QOL) and pa tient reported outcomes (PRO).