Guest guest Posted August 30, 2002 Report Share Posted August 30, 2002 I agree, Alon. Nobody will look at a study of this kind seriously unless at least 100. >>>>>>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. >>>>Needs to be more than 10 patients to get any meaningful information .alon add a control group to each of these (plus a bunch of other items) and you have 3 different studies. >>>>yeah. just let one group do TCM style and the other do as they please and perhaps a third group just use a single plan for all patients. Todd Pamela Zilavy, MA, MS, LAc Research Associate UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies 415) 502-5715 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 31, 2002 Report Share Posted August 31, 2002 I agree, Alon. Nobody will look at a study of this kind seriously unless at least 100 >>>At least 35 per group Alon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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