Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) clinical practice guidelines play essential roles in the development of TCM. However, the existing TCM guidelines are not effectively used in clinic. Based on this phenomenon, this article addresses the characteristics of clinical practice guidelines of TCM, and analyzes its status, problems and resolutions, providing feasible suggestions for the development of high-quality clinical practice guidelines of TCM which are in accordance with clinical practice.
It is very important to develop and revise expert panel consensus on Chinese patent medical clinical application. The contents of the expert panel consensus include determination of the subject, clarity of the application scope, indications, dosage and administration, and safety of Chinese patent medicine. In the process, clinical researchers establish project team, formulate clinical management questions, select the outcome index, retrieve and make the evidence, and develop expert consensus with consensus methods strictly according to the requirements of methodology.