A Survey of Clinical Evidence Evaluation Systems for Traditional Chinese Medicine

Table 5

Problems in the evaluation of TCM clinical evidence.

Project	Count	Percentage (%)
Same evidence may greatly vary among different systems	138	51.7
The evaluation process is opaque and subjective	86	32.2
Lots of evaluation systems and difficulty choosing	72	27
Most methods do not involve recommendations	67	25.1
Little help for clinical decision-making	58	21.7
Others	50	18.7
Evaluation process is complicated and difficult to apply in practice	43	16.1