• Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China;
ZOU Xiaoyi, Email: xiaoyizou@163.com
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Objective  To analyze the methodological quality of clinical trails on butylphthalide for cerebral ischemic stroke.
Methods  We collected all of the published clinical studies on butylphthalide for cerebral ischemic stroke in the world, and evaluated the methodological quality of the included studies according to clinical epidemiologic standard. The search time was from the establishment of each database to December, 2009.
Results  A total of 62 studies involving 5 762 patients were included. In all included studies, there were 56 randomized controlled trials (RCTs). A total of 8 studies described the method of random assignments. There were 4 multi-center randomized double-blind placebo-control trials. A total of 55 reported diagnosis criteria, 40 reported included criteria, 28 reported excluded criteria; 36 reported the curative efficacy at the end of the treatment, 51 assessed the neurological deficit score of patients before and after the treatment, 27 evaluated the ADL scores; 32 studies reported the side effects; 6 trials did not conduct intention-to-treat analysis even though some people withdrew the treatment because of the side effects or poor tolerance, etc.
Conclusion  Except for several high quality RCTs, current quality of some clinical trials on butylphthalide for ischemic stroke should be improved. We recommend that researchers should use internationally accepted consolidate standards of reporting trials (CONSORT) in future studies.

Citation: SONG Wei,LEI Danrong,YUAN Tingting,ZOU Xiaoyi. Quality Analysis of Clinical Trials on Butylphthalide for Cerebral Ischemic Stroke. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2010, 10(4): 483-487. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20100432 Copy

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