The British Medical Journal published the Acupuncture research album which carried viewpoints

expert consensus

research methods and other genres of papers

providing an authoritative reference for standardizing the design of clinical randomized controlled trial(RCT) of acupuncture and improving the quality of clinical research. Based on the experts' consensus of “acupuncture album” on RCT

combining clinical practice and the related literature reports

and many existing problems existing in the design

we

in the present paper

analyzed ways to improve the design quality of clinical RCT of acupuncture

starting from improving the methodological quality and repeatability of clinica RCT

so as to provide methodological guidance for the design of clinical trials and to promote the standardization of clinical trials of acupuncture.