Asian medicine: a way to compare data

Asian medicine: a way to compare data

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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe To help to integrate traditional Asian medicine with Western medicine (S. Cameron _et al_. _Nature_ 482, 35; 2012), the World Health Organization (WHO) is developing common systems for collecting statistics from both. This information — known as the International Classification of Traditional Medicine (see go.nature.com/mv3iux) — is being incorporated into a revision of the WHO International Classification of Diseases, to be released in 2015. Clean, standardized data from several countries will allow proper comparison of the effectiveness, cost and safety of the different approaches. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your institution Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access $199.00 per year only $3.90 per issue Learn more Buy this article * Purchase on SpringerLink * Instant access to full article PDF Buy now Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout ADDITIONAL ACCESS OPTIONS: * Log in * Learn about institutional subscriptions * Read our FAQs * Contact customer support AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * WHO ICTM Project Team, Center for Kampo Medicine, Tokyo, Japan Kenji Watanabe, Xiorui Zhang & Seung-Hoon Choi Authors * Kenji Watanabe View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar * Xiorui Zhang View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar * Seung-Hoon Choi View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Correspondence to Kenji Watanabe. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTRIBUTIONS Correspondence may be sent to CORRESPONDENCE@NATURE.COM after consulting the guidelines at http://go.nature.com/cmchno. RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Watanabe, K., Zhang, X. & Choi, SH. Asian medicine: A way to compare data. _Nature_ 482, 162 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/482162e Download citation * Published: 08 February 2012 * Issue Date: 09 February 2012 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/482162e SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Copy to clipboard Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe To help to integrate traditional Asian medicine with Western medicine (S. Cameron _et al_. _Nature_ 482, 35; 2012), the World Health


Organization (WHO) is developing common systems for collecting statistics from both. This information — known as the International Classification of Traditional Medicine (see


go.nature.com/mv3iux) — is being incorporated into a revision of the WHO International Classification of Diseases, to be released in 2015. Clean, standardized data from several countries


will allow proper comparison of the effectiveness, cost and safety of the different approaches. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access


through your institution Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access $199.00 per year only $3.90 per issue Learn more Buy this article * Purchase on SpringerLink *


Instant access to full article PDF Buy now Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout ADDITIONAL ACCESS OPTIONS: * Log in * Learn about institutional


subscriptions * Read our FAQs * Contact customer support AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * WHO ICTM Project Team, Center for Kampo Medicine, Tokyo, Japan Kenji Watanabe, Xiorui


Zhang & Seung-Hoon Choi Authors * Kenji Watanabe View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar * Xiorui Zhang View author publications You can also


search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar * Seung-Hoon Choi View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Correspondence to


Kenji Watanabe. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTRIBUTIONS Correspondence may be sent to [email protected] after consulting the guidelines at http://go.nature.com/cmchno. RIGHTS AND


PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Watanabe, K., Zhang, X. & Choi, SH. Asian medicine: A way to compare data. _Nature_ 482, 162 (2012).


https://doi.org/10.1038/482162e Download citation * Published: 08 February 2012 * Issue Date: 09 February 2012 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/482162e SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the


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