Clinical practice and research situation of Acupuncture in China: An overview report of 2012 Pearl River Forum

Author

Xiaohong Xu ; Zhe Li ; Xiaoling Xu ; Wenbin Fu

Author_Institution

Second Sch. of Clinic Med., Guangzhou Univ. of Chinese Med., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

379

Lastpage

382

Abstract

The sixth symposium of State development forum of traditional Chinese medicine, 2012 Pearl River Forum, was held in Guangzhou. More than 50 experts on Acupuncture and other related fields all over the country were attracted. The theme for this year´s forum was `Development Strategy on Acupuncture - Accelerating innovation development and advancing clinical practice and research of Chinese acupuncture´. Moreover, an international multicenter clinical evaluation research on the therapeutic effects of acupuncture, which would break its old patterns, was fully discussed and approved in the forum. 2012 Pearl River Forum is to be a turning point of Chinese acupuncture.

Keywords

medicine; patient treatment; reviews; 2012 Pearl River Forum; China; Chinese acupuncture; Guangzhou; acupuncture clinical practice; acupuncture clinical research; acupuncture therapeutic effects; international multicenter clinical evaluation research; traditional Chinese medicine; Computer aided manufacturing; Diseases; Hospitals; Pain; Rivers; Standards; Acupuncture; Chinese Medicine; review;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2746-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2744-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIBMW.2012.6470341

Filename

6470341