Research Article
The Ethics of Traditional Chinese and Western Herbal Medicine Research: Views of Researchers and Human Ethics Committees in Australia
Table 2
Information on the methodology of the ethics applications assessed by HREC as sufficient.
| Domain | | % |
| Blinding or lack thereof | 16 | 80 | Mode of action from a scientific perspective | 10 | 50 | Safety issues when combining herbal ingredients | 8 | 40 | Limited phase one and reliance on anecdotal evidence for safety and dosage | 6 | 30 | Individualisation of treatment according to diagnosis | 5 | 25 | Herbal characterisation, standardisation, and stability | 5 | 25 | Knowledge of traditional diagnostic methods | 4 | 20 | Description of a complex intervention or multi modality holistic treatment | 4 | 20 |
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