基于国外文献的针灸适应症分析

以PubMed和EMbase数据库为基础,通过文献计量的方法,对国外开展的针灸临床试验研究中涉及的适应症进行计量统计,与世界卫生组织1996年在米兰会议上提出的针灸64种适应症进行比较,明确了近15年来有29个新增到一类的适应症,有4个从二类升级到一类的适应症和3个从三类升级到一类的适应症。针灸的适应症在国外正逐步被扩大。

Bibliometrics Study on Indications of Acupuncture Therapy Based on Foreign Acupuncture Clinical Trials

In the present paper,the authors make a bibliometrics study on clinical indications of acupuncture therapy based on the published foreign articles about acupuncture clinical trials collected from PubMed database and Excerpta Medica database(EMbase).In 1996,64 acupuncture indications were declared by WHO in Milan conference.But in recent 15 years,clinical trials have been conducted extensively in the foreign countries.Till now,77 new indications for acupuncture therapy have been found in the foreign journals.The authors recommended that 29 indications(knee osteoarthritis,critique age problems,muscular fasciae ache,anxiety,etc.) should be added to the first class,4 indications(irritable bowel syndrome,malposition,backache,simple obesity) should be upgraded from the second class to the first class,and the other 3 indications(childbirth pain,male and female barren) should be upgraded from the third class to the first class due to their application frequency in clinical trials.Increase of clinical indications reflects extensive application of acupuncture therapy and may help providing a better service for people's health.