Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr Supanimit Teekachunhatean
ORCID ID
Contact details
Department of Pharmacology
Faculty of Medicine
Chiang Mai University
Chiang Mai
50200
Thailand
steekach@mail.med.cmu.ac.th
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
67/2002
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Not provided at time of registration
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Hospitals
Trial type
Treatment
Patient information sheet
Condition
Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee
Intervention
1st Group: Chinese herbal medicine (6 capsules after meal, 3 times a day) plus placebo of diclofenac (1 capsule after meal, 3 times a day)
2nd Group: Placebo of Chinese herbal medicine (6 capsules after meal, 3 times a day) plus diclofenac (1 capsule after meal, 3 times a day)
Intervention type
Drug
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Chinese herbal recipe versus diclofenac
Primary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
01/01/2002
Overall trial end date
01/01/2004
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Patients who had been suffering from unilateral or bilateral OA of the knee according to the criteria of the American College of Rheumatology for more than 3 months
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
200
Participant exclusion criteria
Not provided at time of registration
Recruitment start date
01/01/2002
Recruitment end date
01/01/2004
Locations
Countries of recruitment
Thailand
Trial participating centre
Department of Pharmacology
Chiang Mai
50200
Thailand
Sponsor information
Organisation
Chiang Mai University - Faculty of Medicine (Thailand)
Sponsor details
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Chiang Mai
50200
Thailand
nimit@mail.med.cmu.ac.th
Sponsor type
University/education
Website
Funders
Funder type
University/education
Funder name
Chiang Mai University (Thailand) - Endowment Fund for Medical Research, Faculty of Medicine
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary
Results in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15588333
Publication citations
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Results
Teekachunhatean S, Kunanusorn P, Rojanasthien N, Sananpanich K, Pojchamarnwiputh S, Lhieochaiphunt S, Pruksakorn S, Chinese herbal recipe versus diclofenac in symptomatic treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee: a randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN70292892]., BMC Complement Altern Med, 2004, 4, 19, doi: 10.1186/1472-6882-4-19.