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Efficacy of Liu-zi-jue in Patients with 2019 Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (COVID-19): structured summary of a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Shuai-Pan Zhang, Zhi-Zhen Lv, Qing-Guang Zhu, Wu-Quan Sun, Fei Yao, Lei Fang, Yan-Bin Cheng, Zhiwei Wu et al.

Trials, 2020

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Abstract

Objectives Efficacy of conventional treatment plus the complementary therapy Liu-zi-jue (a mind-body exercise) to treat patients with mild COVID-19. Trial design The study is a single-center 2 arm, randomized controlled trial with parallel-group design.

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Evidence Hub reads this as a randomized trial, done in people. Its evidence level is 2 of 5 (High · randomized trial). Randomized trials of a reasonable size are the strongest single-study design.

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