期刊论文

Dai, M;Tian, Gui-hua;Shan, HC

英文

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

0965-2299

2019

46

180-188

10.1016/j.ctim.2019.08.014

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81725024). We thank the persons who responded to the Delphi survey for their thoughtful comments and all those who contributed to the development of CENT for TCM. We also thank Dr. Ya-wei Zhang (Yale University) for translation of the manuscript from Chinese to English, Dr. Richard Kravitz (University of California, Davis) for the endorsements of critical English editing. We thank Dr. Larissa Shamseer (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa) and Dr. Antony Porcino (University of Alberta) for their comments and suggestions on the checklist of CENT for TCM.

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