The Rome consensus: good clinical trials for traditional medicine

Conflict of interest statement

Boli Zhang is the editor-in-chief of this journal, and Junhua Zhang, Alice J. Fauci, and Myeong Soo Lee are editorial board members of this journal. The other authors declare no conflict of interest.

Funding

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Author contributions

Junhua Zhang and Bo Pang are the main drafters of the manuscript. Boli Zhang, Alice J. Fauci, Myeong Soo Lee, L. Susan Wieland, Iman Majd, Terje Alræk, Linda Zhong, Aldo Liguori, Kam Wa Chan, Carlo Maria Giovanardi, Jialiang He, Baohe Wang, Yuhong Huang, Jia Liu, and Pasquale Ricci revised and provided critical version of the manuscript. Sergio Bangrazi, Paolo Landini, Annalisa Bucchi, Filomena Petti, and Jianan Guo helped with organization and dissemination. Jingqing Hu, Yanming Xie, Jianyuan Tang, Zhongqi Yang, Weian Yuan, Rui Gao, and Fang Lu helped with the methodological normalization. All authors contributed to the revision of the manuscript and approved the final manuscript.

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Acknowledgments

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Data availability

All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article.