Evaluation of the effectiveness of constitutional homeopathic therapy by the method constitutional delusion test
AUTHORS : Bobrov I.A. | Gotovsky M. Yu. | Mkhitaryan K.N. | Storozhenko Yu.A. | Goltsov A.G.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Center for intelligent medical systems “IMEDIS”, Moscow
YEAR : 2008
The orthodox approach to the statistical assessment of the effectiveness of therapy using one method or
another presupposes (in the context of a study carried out in one center): the formation of comparison groups
of patients taking into account randomization, standardization of the treatment (used drugs, the order of their
administration, etc.) in order to objectification of the result of therapy.
However, for a statistical assessment of the effectiveness of homeopathic and, in particular,
constitutional therapy, the formal fulfillment of such requirements is, as a rule, both
methodologically and ethically unacceptable, which has already been noted by professional
researchers [2]. In this paper, we propose a variant of evaluating the effectiveness of treatment,
which, in our opinion: on the one hand, fully satisfies the strict criteria of evidence of a
statistical study,
