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Fig. 2 | Trials

Fig. 2

From: Effects of traditional Chinese medicine combined with chemotherapy for extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer patients on improving oncologic survival: study protocol of a multicenter, randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Fig. 2

Procedure of single-blind. Take participant No.01001 as an example. (1) The participant was randomly assigned to the test group by REDCap system. (2) The participant’s TCM syndrome type was diagnosed by a TCM physician according to Table 2. (3) The drug administrator selects the correct TCM granules of corresponding type. (4) The sachets of TCM granules were removed from the red box to a white box. (5) The white box was labeled by No.01001 and passed to the participant, who was blinded until the end of the study. (6) The red box was labeled too and kept as evidence of single-blind by the drug administrator

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