Research Article
The Reporting Quality Assessment of Complex Interventions’ Articles in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Table 2
The data of included articles in general.
| Item | Sub-item | Number of reported (%) |
| The top five types of diseases that articles involve are | Gynecology and reproductive system diseases | 46 (13.0%) | Bone and joint or motion sickness | 41 (11.6%) | Tumor | 39 (11.0%) | Digestive diseases | 37 (10.4%) | Endocrine diseases | 32 (9.0%) |
| Funding | National | 41 (11.6%) | Provincial, ministry, or municipal | 77 (21.8%) | Others | 10 (2.8%) | No explanations | 226 (63.8%) |
| The department of first author | Colleges, universities, and affiliated hospital | 188 (53.1%) | Other hospitals at all levels | 139 (39.3%) | Research institutions | 27 (7.6%) |
| The number of participating centers | 1 | 316 (89.3%) | 2–5 | 32 (9.0%) | 6+ | 6 (1.7%) |
| Other information | Informed Consent | 137 (38.7%) | Ethical approval | 9 (2.5%) | Acknowledgments | 3 (0.8%) |
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