Research I'd like to see

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2) We begin with X number of patients, all of whom have the same disease(either biomedical or TCM). 10 practitioners all treat the patients theexact same way. Point prescription, herbal prescription, the onlydifference is the practitioner and perhaps the practitioner's needlingtechnique. I would very much like to see how the patients responded tothis research. See how much difference there is in thepatient/practitioner interaction as well as needling technique.>>>>Needs to be more than 10 patients to get any meaningful information

alon

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> What would interest me would be comparing clinical results of

> differently trained students.

 

There are a few studies I'd like to see happen:

 

1) We begin with X number of patients all of whom have the same disease

(either biomedical or TCM).10 practitioners treat their portion of

patients each in their own way, with their own diagnosis and treatment

principles. We assess the results.

 

2) We begin with X number of patients, all of whom have the same disease

(either biomedical or TCM). 10 practitioners all treat the patients the

exact same way. Point prescription, herbal prescription, the only

difference is the practitioner and perhaps the practitioner's needling

technique. I would very much like to see how the patients responded to

this research. See how much difference there is in the

patient/practitioner interaction as well as needling technique.

 

Colleen wrote:

 

>>>It would be interesting to see what the treatment plans are (both

points and herbs) and see if there was any correlation between

differently trained practitioners giving different diagnoses, but

perhaps prescribing similar treatments. <<<

 

Yes, that would be interesting. We could actually do that at ECTOM

without too much work...

 

One patient, ten practitioners, ten diagnosis, treatment principles,

point prescriptions and herbal formulas. Compared, just to see how

different practitioners are doing things. Very interesting indeed.

Might be a real insight into the practitioners and how they think too,

as in an expression of Shen as much an expression of their clinical

background and training.

 

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Al Stone L.Ac.

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