Review Article
Randomized Controlled Trials on Complementary and Traditional Medicine in the Korean Literature
Table 4
Methodological quality of complementary and traditional medicine RCTs in Korea according to Cochrane tool for assessing risk of bias
(%)
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| | Risk of bias | Natural products | Mind and body practices | Total () | | Herbal medicine () | Ginseng therapy () | Vitamin diet-based therapy () | Acupuncture () | Pharmacoacupuncture () | Qigong
magnet () | Tuina technique () | Moxibustion therapy () | Massage () | Taping technique () | Cupping therapy () | Meditation
tai-chi
yoga
aroma therapy () |
| | () Random sequence generation | 18 (60.0) | 11 (57.9) | 1 (20.0) | 65 (45.1) | 34 (48.6) | 2 (6.5) | 5 (29.4) | 4 (33.3) | 3 (30.0) | 3 (42.9) | 1 (20.0) | 3 (30.0) | 150 (41.7) | | () Allocation concealment | 3 (10.0) | 7 (36.8) | 0 | 17 (11.8) | 3 (4.3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 (8.3) | | () Blinding of participants and personnel | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patients | 23 (76.7) | 17 (89.5) | 3 (60.0) | 47 (32.6) | 30 (42.9) | 4 (12.9) | 0 | 1 (8.3) | 1 (10.0) | 1 (14.3) | 0 | 0 | 123 (34.2) | | Doctor | 22 (73.3) | 16 (84.2) | 3 (60.0) | | 18 (25.7) | | | | | | | | 59 (16.4) | | () Blinding of outcome assessment | 22 (73.3) | 14 (73.7) | 3 (60.0) | 27 (18.8) | 8 (11.4) | 3 (9.7) | 0 | 0 | 2 (20.0) | 1 (14.3) | 1 (20.0) | 0 | 81 (22.5) | | () Incomplete outcome data | 27 (90.0) | 15 (78.9) | 5 (100.0) | 42 (29.2) | 30 (42.9) | 9 (29.0) | 2 (11.8) | 9 (75.0) | 5 (50.0) | 7 (100.0) | 3 (60.0) | 6 (60.0) | 160 (44.4) | | () Selective reporting | 2 (6.7) | 3 (15.8) | 0 | 3 (2.1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 (2.2) |
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Low risk of bias, (%).
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