Chapter 7
Statistical Validation of Chinese Diagnostic Procedures
7.1 Introduction
In recent years, the search for new medicines for treating life-threatening diseases such as cancer has become the center of attention in pharmaceutical research and development. As a result, many pharmaceutical companies have begun to focus on the modernization of traditional Chinese medicines (TCM). Modernization of a TCM is based on scientific evaluations of the efficacy and safety of the TCM in terms of well-established clinical endpoints for a Western indication through clinical trials on humans. However, it should be recognized that there are fundamental differences in the scientific evaluation of the efficacy and safety of a TCM as compared to a typical ...
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