Chinese Herbal Medicine in the Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure: Three-Stage Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">Databases</td><td align="left">Search terms</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">CNKI</td><td align="left">[(Mesh terms = heart failure) OR (Title = chronic heart failure) OR (Keywords = chronic heart failure)] AND [(Mesh terms = syndrome) OR (Keywords = syndrome)]</td></tr><tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">CBM</td><td align="left">(Mesh terms = chronic heart failure OR Mesh terms = CHF OR Mesh terms = chronic congestive heart failure OR Mesh terms = chronic cardiac insufficiency) and ((Mesh terms = syndrome) or (Mesh terms = traditional Chinese medicine))</td></tr><tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">VIP</td><td align="left">((Title or keywords: chronic cardiac insufficiency) OR (Title or keywords: CHF) OR (Title or keywords: chronic heart failure) OR (Title or keywords: chronic congestive heart failure)) AND (Title or keywords: syndrome) AND (Title or keywords: symptom) AND (Medicine and health) AND (All Periodicals) AND (Year: 1994–2008)</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

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Table 1: Chinese Herbal Medicine in the Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure: Three-Stage Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial 