Quantifying traditional Chinese medicine patterns using modern test theory: an example of functional constipation
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- 作者：Minxue Shen ; Yuanwu Cui ; Ming Hu ; Linyong Xu
- 关键词：Multidimensional item response theory ; Scale validation ; Traditional Chinese medicine ; Functional constipation
- 刊名：BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：965KB
- 刊物主题：Complementary & Alternative Medicine; Internal Medicine; Chiropractic Medicine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1472-6882
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundThe study aimed to validate a scale to assess the severity of “Yin deficiency, intestine heat” pattern of functional constipation based on the modern test theory.