The Journal of the Society of Korean Medicine Diagnostics (대한한의진단학회지)

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A Review of the Scale Measurement Studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine

중의(中醫) 양표학(量表學) 연구 동향

  • Ryu, Jae-Min (Dept. of Biofunctional Medicine and Diagnosis, College of Oriental Medicine, Kyung-Hee University) ;
  • Park, Young-Bae (Dept. of Biofunctional Medicine and Diagnosis, College of Oriental Medicine, Kyung-Hee University) ;
  • Park, Young-Jae (Dept. of Biofunctional Medicine and Diagnosis, College of Oriental Medicine, Kyung-Hee University)
  • 유재민 (경희대학교 한의과대학 진단.생기능의학과학교실) ;
  • 박영배 (경희대학교 한의과대학 진단.생기능의학과학교실) ;
  • 박영재 (경희대학교 한의과대학 진단.생기능의학과학교실)
  • Published : 2008.07.31
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Abstract

Purpose: To review the Scale Measurement studies on Traditional Chinese Medicine and it's prospection. Method: The papers reviewed in this study were searched through internet search engines such as China National Knowledge Infrastructure(www.cnki.net). we searched papers on Scale studies by the keyword "量表"(Scale) and "中醫"(TCM). Results: 263 papers which is truly related on "Scale" were collected. All the papers were reviewed briefly under the subtitle of diagnosis, evaluation of curative value, development of scale, reverse of overseas questionnaire to chinese literature and etc. Conclusions: Scale measurement studies on TCM proceeded so much but their medical application was on small and narrow field. Also Scale study had TCM's characteristics were only 18% of them. Neverthless, productions from China were precious and valuable to Korean Oriental Medicine and we have to learn their success on scale measurement studies.

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