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KMID : 0861120150190010061
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Korean Journal of Oriental Preventive Medicine
2015 Volume.19 No. 1 p.61 ~ p.70
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The Analysis of usage of Symptom Differentiation in Clinical Trials in Korean Medicine for Cancer Patients
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Cheon Chun-Hoo
Park Sun-Ju
Jang Bo-Hyoung
Shin Yong-Cheol
Ko Seong-Gyu
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Abstract
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Objective : The aim of this study is to investigate the features of clinical trial which used symptom differentiation on cancer patients.
Method : Electronic databases including Ovid-Medline, Ovid-EMBASE, and Cochrane library were searched. Search terms incorporating the concepts of cancer, herbal medicine, clinical trial were used. Articles described using symptom differentiation in methods were selected.
Results : Twelve studies used symptom differentiation for prescribing herbal medicine to cancer patients. A total of 36 symptom differentiation were used. The kind of the herbal medicines was varied as much as the kind of symptom differentiation.
Conclusion : Most of herbal medicines used for cancer patients focused on quality of life or adverse events rather than tumor size. Symptom differentiation and herbal medicine used in selected studies were too diverse to categorize. To use standardized symptom differentiation, symptom differentiation instrument should be developed and reliability test and validity test are needed.
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KEYWORD
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cancer patients, symptom differentiation, herbal medicine, clinical trial
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