Quantifying Liver-Stomach Disharmony Pattern of Functional Dyspepsia Using Multidimensional Analysis Methods

Purpose. This study aims to develop and validate a quantitative model for measuring severity of a typical traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) pattern for functional dyspepsia (FD) using multidimensional analysis methods including confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and multidimensional item response t...

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Main Authors: Zhongyu Huang, Zipan Lyu, Zhengkun Hou, Yuefeng Wu, Junqing Huang, Fengbin Liu, Jiaxu Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2020-01-01
Series:Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2562080