Research on Structured Approach of Traditional Chinese Medicine Symptom Information

VernacularTitle:中医临床症状结构化探究
Author: Jing SUN ; Wenping DENG ; Kai CHANG ; Shusong MAO
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Traditional Chinese medicine clinical symptoms; structurization; information model; clinical study
From: World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2014;(9):2015-2019
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: This study was aimed to investigate structured approach of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) symptom information. Combining results of the Chinese Symptomatology Research and literature review, this study proposed a dual structure model of symptom. A total of 440 symptoms, which were screened out from the Chinese Terms in TCM and Pharmacy, were used for symptom structured attempt. The results showed that 9 symptoms and 9 attributes were identified, 201 main concept words of symptoms were extracted, and 420 symptoms with the dual structure model were structured. It was concluded that structural information model of TCM symptoms proposed in this study was feasible. However, the research methods and results are exploratory, which requires further verification.