ISO/TS 16843-4:2017 健康情報学—鍼治療を表現するためのカテゴリー構造—パート4：子午線および側副チャネル | ページ 2

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Introduction

Acupuncture therapy is widely practiced as a part of complementary and alternative medicine in many countries, both eastern and western.

A guideline for reporting acupuncture intervention in clinical trial is already provided, and a large number of clinical trials have been conducted to assess the efficiency of acupuncture therapy. However, the descriptions of meridian and collateral, as an acupuncture intervention in clinical reports, tend to be insufficient for the interpretation of heterogeneity among trials, often causing difficulties in synthesizing data in the meta-analysis. This arises from three reasons: firstly, appropriate information structure of meridian and collateral is not formulated; secondly, peculiar concepts within traditional medicine in western pacific-rim region originated in China are not considered sufficient; thirdly, semantic associations between concepts of meridian and collateral need to be explicit.

This document defines the categorial structures in the field of meridian and collateral in order to solve the existing problems.

1 Scope

This document specifies the categorial structure within the subject field of meridian and collateral by defining a set of domain constraints of sanctioned characteristics, each composed of a semantic link and an applicable characterizing category in order to represent the concept of meridian and collateral.

2 Normative references

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3 Terms and definitions

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