Discussion on clinical trial design of treatment of hypertension with acupuncture and moxibustion / 中国针灸

ABSTRACT

Differences in design and implementation of clinical research on hypertension treatment with acupuncture and moxibustion were analyzed in this article so as to provide experiences to the design of clinical research on its treatment. Through document retrieval, it can be acquired that results of high quality clinical researches on treatment of hypertension with acupuncture and moxibustion have already been published. However, limitations in terms of sample size calculation, stochastic method, implementation of the blind method, selection of the control group and report on implementation process still existed in domestic documents. Therefore, high quality design proposals which not only in compliance with the features of acupuncture-moxibustion, but also accepted by modern medicine should be established with the combination of the advantages of acupuncture-moxibustion and clinical features of the disease. Moreover, standardizations on measuring the blood pressure, sample size calculation, selection of the control measurements, stochastic method and implementation of the blind methods should be established as well.