Items | Quantity |
---|---|
(n, %) | |
Research institute | |
Teaching hospitals | 254 (23.6%) |
Non-teaching hospitals | 818 (75.9%) |
Scientific research institutions | 5 (0.5%) |
Study center | |
Multiple | 25 (2.3%) |
Single | 1052 (97.7%) |
Funding | |
Not stated | 1033 (95.91%) |
Stated | 44 (4.09%) |
International | 1 (0.09%) |
National | 9 (0.84%) |
Provincial | 17 (1.58%) |
Municipal | 14 (1.3%) |
University | 3 (0.28%) |
Pharmaceutical company sponsored | Unclear |
Intervention | |
Western medicine | 688 (63.9%) |
Traditional Chinese medicine | 350 (32.5%) |
Combined traditional Chinese and Western medicine | 39 (3.6%) |
Comparability of baseline | |
Comparable | 936 (86.9%) |
Incomparable | 2 (0.2%) |
Unclear | 139 (12.9%) |
Control intervention | |
Placebo control | 12 (1.1%) |
Positive drug | 461 (42.8%) |
Open control | 604 (56.1%) |
Sample size calculation | |
Stated | 7 (0.6%) |
Not stated | 1070 (99.4%) |
Outcomes | |
Positive | 1028 (95.5%) |
Negative | 49 (4.5%) |
Report of adverse events | |
Stated adverse events | 279 (25.9%) |
Stated no adverse events | 251 (23.3%) |
Not stated | 547 (50.8%) |