About the Authors

Yu Xiang

Affiliation The Second Clinical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Liming Lu

Affiliation Key Unit of Methodology in Clinical Research, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xiankun Chen

Affiliation Key Unit of Methodology in Clinical Research, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zehuai Wen

wenzh@gzucm.edu.cn

Affiliations Key Unit of Methodology in Clinical Research, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, National Center for Design Measurement and Evaluation in Clinical Research, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZW YX. Formal analysis: YX XC. Methodology: YX LL ZW. Supervision: ZW. Validation: ZW YX. Writing – original draft: YX LL. Writing – review & editing: ZW YX.