Current status, considerations and suggestion on real-world acupuncture research

In recent years, the importance of real-world research based on real-world data has been widely recognized in many countries and regions around the world. Oriented by real-world data, real-world research is conducted to obtain real-world evidence, which becomes a hot spot in clinical study. In such circumstances, how to use the diagnosis and treatment data of clinical practice to evaluate the effect and safety of acupuncture becomes future direction of acupuncture research. This paper analyzed the current situation of the real-world research in the field of acupuncture and put forward the influencing factors and the countermeasures to provide the references for the real-world research of acupuncture.(c) 2023 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of World Journal of Acupuncture Moxibustion House.