针灸安全性的前瞻性研究设计

On the Design of Prospective Survey for Acupuncture Safety

针灸的安全性问题和其疗效一样被越来越多的国家重视,循证医学的应用使得以往关于针灸安全性的回顾性研究及一些个案报道因其相对降低的证据级别受到质疑,我国的针灸医师有条件也有责任开展相关的前瞻性研究来填补国内这方面的空白。

At the same time of the more and more public concern about acupuncture therapy′s efficacy,its safety issues have also been put on the agenda in many countries.The extensive usage of EBM（evidence-based medicine）promotes awareness of the importance of having good evidence on the safety of acupuncture.Individual case reports and retrospective surveys′s estimate are weakened because they are based on practitioners remembering past events over a considerable period of time in practice,the domestic which is vacuity in this area cry out for all domestic acupuncture professionals to design a comprehensive and detailed real prospective survey of acupuncture safety.