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

ABSTRACT

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.