PMID- 18955223
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110714
LR  - 20240109
IS  - 1741-427X (Print)
IS  - 1741-4288 (Electronic)
IS  - 1741-427X (Linking)
VI  - 6
IP  - 1
DP  - 2009 Mar
TI  - Chinese Herbal Medicine for Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding: a Meta-analysis.
PG  - 99-105
LID - 10.1093/ecam/nem063 [doi]
AB  - We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Chinese 
      herbal medicine (CHM) for dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB) by performing a 
      meta-analysis. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or quasi-RCTs comparing CHM vs 
      no treatment, placebo, conventional western medicine (CWM), or general 
      non-specific surgical treatment for DUB were identified by electronic and manual 
      searches. Trials of CHM treatments with CWM treatments were compared with CWM 
      treatments alone. Jadad scale and allocation concealment were used to assess the 
      quality of included studies. Four RCTs or quasi-RCTs involving 525 patients were 
      included. The methodological quality was poor in all trials except one trial. No 
      serious adverse events were reported in the included studies. With the lack of 
      trials comparing CHM with no treatment or placebo, it is impossible to accurately 
      evaluate the efficacy of CHM. However, CHM in these studies seem to show an 
      encouraging comparative effectiveness with CWM. More RCTs with a higher quality 
      are required.
FAU - Tu, Xiang
AU  - Tu X
AD  - College of Clinical Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 
      Chengdu 610075, Sichuan Province, China. E- tuxiang2005@163.com.
FAU - Huang, Gaomin
AU  - Huang G
FAU - Tan, Shengkui
AU  - Tan S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20070630
PL  - United States
TA  - Evid Based Complement Alternat Med
JT  - Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM
JID - 101215021
PMC - PMC2644269
EDAT- 2008/10/29 09:00
MHDA- 2008/10/29 09:01
PMCR- 2010/03/01
CRDT- 2008/10/29 09:00
PHST- 2008/10/29 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/10/29 09:01 [medline]
PHST- 2008/10/29 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - nem063 [pii]
AID - 10.1093/ecam/nem063 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2009 Mar;6(1):99-105. doi: 
      10.1093/ecam/nem063. Epub 2007 Jun 30.