International patient registry on acupuncture therapy for premature ovarian insufficiency:Challenges and opportunities

作     者：Deqiang GAO Liyun HE Yigong FANG Yan LIU Xingyue YANG Lin LUO Jia LIU Huisheng YANG Baoyan LIU 高德强;何丽云;房繄恭;刘岩;杨星月;雒琳;刘佳;杨会生;刘保延

作者机构：Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine China Academy of Chinese Medical SciencesBeijing 100700 China Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences China Acupuncture and Moxibustion Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical ScienceChina Beijing University of Chinese MedicineChina China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Beijing 100700 China 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Acupuncture-Moxibustion》 (世界针灸杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第28卷第1期

页      面：1-3,I0001页

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学科分类：1005[医学-中医学] 100512[医学-针灸推拿学] 10[医学] 

基　　金：Supported by Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China through the Twelfth Five-Year National Science and Technology Pillar Program(2012BAI24B02) 

主　　题：Premature ovarian insufficiency International patient registry Acupuncture therapy Challenges and opportunities 

摘      要：Premature ovarian insufficiency（POI） affects seriously physical and mental health of the patients. Studies show that acupuncture may be promising in treating POI. yet evidence is insufficient. International patient registry, one form of observational study, is designed for evaluating effectiveness and safety of acupuncture in real-world clinical settings. We will face a series of opportunities and challenges. The opportunities are as follows：（1） Interdisciplinary cooperation can improve the effect of acupuncture for POI.（2） The protocol for acupuncture to treat POI has room for improvement.（3） The patient registry study can make up the shortcomings of randomized controlled trials.（4） The patient registry study can collect real-world data and explore responses of different populations to acupuncture and can be the foundation for the successive studies. International patient registry may face technological, ethical and financial challenges, while the established International Patient Registry Platform of Acupuncture-Moxibustion（***：8082/v3） is actively responding to these challenges. Till now there have been more than 300 patients of POI enrolled on this platform.