Key issues on the clinical pathway development: a view from Chinese medicine and integrative medicine.
- Author:
Da-Rong WU
1
;
Luo-Jing ZHOU
;
Si-Cheng WANG
Author Information
1. The Second Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Critical Pathways;
Integrative Medicine;
methods;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional;
methods
- From:
Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine
2010;30(11):1206-1208
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Comparing with the Western medicine, the clinical pathway development of Chinese medicine (CM)/integrative medicine (IM), on one hand, should follow the basic principles of general clinical pathway; on the other and prior hand, it ought to coordinate with the rule of CM, and display sufficiently the advantages of CM based upon the evidences. Several key issues which may be encountered in the development and the relevant strategies were introduced in this paper.
