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Organic Integration of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicines—Future of Clinical Practice Guidelines of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicines

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The transformation and implementation of clinical practice guidelines for integrated traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine (WM) is crucial to the adoption of medical science and technological findings and is an important way for TCM to be made available to the world. First, clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) of TCM and WM integration in recent years was analyzed to clarify the current situation and problems in the existing guidelines according to the following four perspectives: (1) perspective of TCM and WM integration in guidelines, (2) diagnosis Using integrated TCM and WM, (3) integration of TCM and WM treatment, (4) promoting TCM and WM integration. Secondly, the information and quality evaluation of CPGs for integrated Chinese and Western medicine in 2020–2022 were analyzed to explore the degree and methods of integration of Chinese and Western medicine guidelines. And last this study aimed to lay a foundation for the further establishment of Chinese characteristic, repeatable, and calculable clinical practice guidelines of TCM and WM integration.

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  1. Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine Encephalopathy, Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Ying-lan Xie, Yan-bing Ding, Teng Zhang & Xiao-min Chen

  2. Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine Encephalopathy, Hubei Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Institute, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Ying-lan Xie, Yan-bing Ding, Teng Zhang & Xiao-min Chen

  3. Xuanwu Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, 100000, China

    Fei Han

  4. Center for Evidence-Based and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Ying-hui Jin

  5. College of Acupuncture and Massage, College of Health and Rehabilitation, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Jing Guo

  6. Department of Ophthalmology, Huaihe Hospital of Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan Province, 475000, China

    Dong-xiao Ji

  7. Ministry of Education and Beijing Key Laboratory of Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine/Ministry of Education and Beijing Key Laboratory of Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, 100700, China

    Hong-cai Shang

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Xie YL, Ding YB and Jing YH conceived the idea. Xie YL, Ding YB and Han F wrote the draft of the manuscript. Guo J, Ji DX, Zhang T, and Chen XM searched and analyzed the literature. Xie YL and Ji DX drew the figures of the manuscript. Jing YH and Shang HC revised the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Supported by the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine to Enhance the Evidence-Based Ability of Traditional Chinese Medicine Encephalopathy and Platform Construction (No. 2019XZZX-NB003), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82174230), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2042022kf1213)

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Xie, Yl., Han, F., Jin, Yh. et al. Organic Integration of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicines—Future of Clinical Practice Guidelines of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicines. Chin. J. Integr. Med. 30, 359–365 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11655-023-3739-9

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