Critical appraisal model of international journal papers in acupuncture of the curative effect on diabetes mellitus Jaung-Geng Lin1, Shih-Liang Chang2 1. Graduate Institute of Chinese Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan. 2. Graduate Institute of Integration Chinese and Western Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan. Abstract Background: In recent years, more and more importance has been placed on traditional medicine around the world. The concept of evidence-based medicine (EBM) proposed by British Professor Archie Cochrane has also gained gradual acceptance and even gained health insurance approval. Given these developments, evidence-based medical study of literature relating to traditional Chinese medicine is both timely and significant. Objective: The PubMed and Medline database search using the terms “Acupuncture” and “Diabetes Mellitus” (DM) selected relevant publications, which investigated the relationship between the curative effect of acupuncture and DM. Materials and Methods: Based on this critical appraisal model of interested issue, the evaluating indexes of the literature were established. The impact factor (IF) was based on latest issue of journal citation report (JCR) available in the library of China Medical University. It was indicated by 0.1 when the issues were unable to find. The supposition of question (SOQ; -3-0-3) was a quantification index given by the appraiser after study of the texts and the described clinical issue. Score of “0” indicates the reference is unrelated to the described clinical issue. The SOQ is divided into 3 positive and 3 negative scores and completed by and according to the appraiser. The levels of evidence (LOE; 5-1) was to score for the paper of evidence. Then, we totaled the “IF * SOQ * LOE “of each paper to summarize the evidences of proposed issue. Results and conclusions: we concluded that acupuncture therapy on the curative effect of diabetes mellitus is su?
