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"Defining best practice...? Elementary my dear researcher."
No full textIn this brief but engaging article, the author ruminates on the political nature of research and on the problems this poses for East Asian Medicine, and points to the fact that the thorny business of defining best (or at least 'good enough') practice is of central importance here. He concludes by offering a richly simple model - based on the Five Phases (wu xing) - for defining what best practice is.<br/
[To Flower Mission workers].
No full textCaption title. Author from last p.; Cover title: Flower Mission Department, W.W.C.T.U.; Ferguson, J.A. Australia, 18876; Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2010.Flower Mission Department, W.W.C.T.
The role of Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of endometriosis
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Parakelia, wild flower of South Australia, water in stalks, ca. 1950s [transparency] /
No full textCaption from slide mount.; Part of The Reverend Andrew Leslie McKay collection of photographs relating to Inland Australia, 1950-1976.; Colour loss across bottom.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4181012; Collection donated by Mrs Lyn McKay, widow of Reverend Les McKay, through their daughter Dr. Judith McKay
Cactus flower, grown in dry conditions at Omicron Station, Queensland, ca. 1964 [transparency] /
No full textCaption from slide mount.; Mould spots.; Omicron station, operated by Mr and Mrs Fred Osborne, is south east of Birdsville, in the south west corner of Queensland. Information from the Diaries of Rev. Les McKay - MS9856.; Part of The Reverend Andrew Leslie McKay collection of photographs relating to Inland Australia, 1950-1976.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4181289; Collection donated by Mrs Lyn McKay, widow of Reverend Les McKay, through their daughter Dr. Judith McKay
A feasibility study exploring the role of Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of endometriosis
No full textCombining rigour with relevance: a novel methodology for testing Chinese herbal medicine
No full textBackground: There is a need to develop an evidence base for Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) that is both rigorous and reflective of good practice. This paper proposes a novel methodology to test individualised herbal decoctions using a randomised, double blinded, placebo controlled clinical trial.Method: A feasibility study was conducted to explore the role of CHM in the treatment of endometriosis. Herbal formulae were pre-cooked and dispensed as individual doses in sealed plastic sachets. This permitted the development and testing of a plausible placebo decoction. Participants were randomised at a distant pharmacy to receive either an individualised herbal prescription or a placebo.Results: The trial met the predetermined criteria for good practice. Neither the participants nor the practitioner-researcher could reliably identify group allocation. Of the 28 women who completed the trial, in the placebo group (n = 15) 3 women (20%) correctly guessed they were on placebo, 8 (53%) thought they were on herbs and 4 (27%) did not know which group they had been allocated to. In the active group (n = 13) 2 (15%) though they were on placebo, 8 (62%) thought they were on herbs and 3 (23%) did not know. Randomisation, double blinding and allocation concealment were successful and the study model appeared to be feasible and effective.Conclusion: It is now possible to subject CHM to rigorous scientific scrutiny without compromising model validity. Improvement in the design of the placebo using food colourings and flavourings instead of dried food will help guarantee the therapeutic inertia of the placebo decoction.<br/
Seeking an oracle: using the Delphi process to develop practice guidelines for the treatment of endometriosis with Chinese herbal medicine
No full textBackground: For most complementary and alternative medicine interventions, the absence of a high-quality evidence base to define good practice presents a serious problem for clinicians, educators, and researchers. The Delphi process may offer a pragmatic way to establish good practice guidelines until more rigorous forms of assessment can be undertaken. Objectives: To use a modified Delphi to develop good practice guidelines for a feasibility study exploring the role of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) in the treatment of endometriosis. To compare the outcomes from Delphi with data derived from a systematic review of the Chinese language database. Design: An expert group was convened for a three-round Delphi that initially produced key statements relating to the CHM diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis (round 1) and then anonymously rated these on a 1-7 Likert scale (rounds 2 and 3). Statements with a median score of 5 and above were regarded as demonstrating positive group consensus. The differential diagnoses within Chinese Medicine and rating of the clinical value of individual herbs were then contrasted with comparable data from a review of Chinese language reports in the Chinese Biomedical Retrieval System (1978-2002), and China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (1985-2002) databases and the Chinese TCM and magazine literature (1984-2004) databases. Results: Consensus (good practice) guidelines for the CHM treatment of endometriosis relating to common diagnostic patterns, herb selection, dosage, and patient management were produced. The Delphi guidelines demonstrated a high degree of congruence with the information from the Chinese language databases. Conclusions: In the absence of rigorous evidence, Delphi offers a way to synthesize expert knowledge relating to diagnosis, patient management, and herbal selection in the treatment of endometriosis. The limitations of the expert group and the inability of Delphi to capture the subtle nuances of individualized clinical decision-making limit the usefulness of this approac
The RUTI trial: a feasibility study exploring Chinese herbal medicine for the treatment of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections
No full textThis dataset contains data which are used for generating the tables and graphs in the manuscript 'The RUTI trial: a feasibility study exploring Chinese herbal medicine for the treatment of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections'
The trial data (without diary entry) is in the excel 'RUTI trial data (Final)'. A data tab gives information on how the numbering relates to the CRFs.
The diary data is supplied in two forms, one where the diary data is entered where the symptom score has been used continuously throughout the diary as some participants were never free of symptoms and another set where it is entered where a low score has been used with the assumption that this is not a UTI as would 'normally' be defined making episodic data.
This dataset supports the publication:The RUTI trial: a feasibility study exploring Chinese herbal medicine for the treatment of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections.</span
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