Reporting standards for expert consensus on clinical practice of Chinese patent medicines of China Association of Chinese Medicine / 中国中药杂志

In 2018,Standardization Department of China Association of Chinese Medicine invited methodologists with the background of evidence-based medicine to discuss and draft a series of standards for expert consensus on clinical practice of Chinese patent medicines. These standards have been made by reference to the published standards for developing expert consensus and clinical practice guidelines. These standards were made based on full consideration of the current evidence status and the history of clinical practice of Chinese patent medicines. These standards were composed of four parts,namely information summary items,normative general items,normative technical items and information supplementary items,including cover,content,preface,introduction,title,scope,basic Information of Chinese patent medicine,suggestions for clinical application,safety,conflict of interest,appendix,and references,so as to provides reference for improving the quality of expert consensus-based compilation and enhancing the applicability of expert consensus.

Guidance of instructions for compiling expert consensus on clinical practice of Chinese patent medicine of China Association of Chinese Medicine / 中国中药杂志

The expert consensus on clinical practice of Chinese patent medicines shall be regarded as the same with clinical practice guidelines,which shall be concise,readable and applicable. Therefore,a formal expert consensus is unable to contain the whole compilation process and the content of its important process documents. It is necessary to write instructions for continuation,expansion and publicity. In 2018 Standardization Department of China Association of Chinese Medicine invited methodologists with the background of evidence-based medicine drafted a series of standards for expert consensus on clinical practice of Chinese patent medicines,including the guidance for compilation the instructions. It will be useful for readers of expert consensus to understand the work behind the compilation,so as to make the compilation process more transparent and standardized. We proposed nine requirements for compilation the instructions,namely content and requirements,work overview,main technical content,compilation process,process and basis for handling major disagreements,expert consensus implementation requirements and measure suggestions,other issues need to be explained,appendix and format for instructions.