Clinical practice guidelines are systematically developed clinical multi-discipline advisory statements which assist providers, recipients and other stakeholders to make informed decisions about appropriate health interventions. Chinese government and some clinical academic communities began to develop the domestic guidelines after 2000. Nevertheless, there were still some shortcomings presented in the domestic guidelines if assessed by the advanced appraisal instrument of the developed countries. There were four aspects as follow. The first, misunderstood the guidelines are the rule or text book. The second, ignored presentation of the procedure about development of guidelines. The third, there were a lack of high level evidences. The fourth, not declared editorial independence. However, it is necessary to develop the domestic guideline of China. With rising conflicts between the increasing needs for health care and shortage of our environment resource, development of the guidelines become one of the key steps in the process of clinical practice.

Clinical practice guidelines have been widely applied worldwide.Compared with the developed countries,however,the development of guidelines still has many limitations in China,which is mainly due to the lack of a guideline for guiding this process.Such a guideline,defined as “a structured and coordinated programme designed with the specific aim of producing several clinical practice guidelines should be able to specify the development,dissemination,implementation,evaluation,and update of each clinical practice guideline.Furthermore,the lack of high-quality randomized controlled trials and cohort studies also restricts the development of high-level guidelines.After the development of such a guideline for developing guidelines,we can expect the faster development of Chinese clinical practice guidelines that are more carefully designed,more reliable,and more practical.

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The physicians and surgeons working in modern hospital should get achievement in the clinic,research,teaching,and prevention.In the past,scientific impact was assessed by the citation number of published papers in domestic and foreign journals,which obviously has many limitations.Hirsch JE,a physics professor from the United States proposed the h-index for the evaluation of the scientific impact of individual scientists in 2005.The h-index has been now been introduced in China.The applicability,limitations,and usage of h-index are discussed in this article.

Nutrition support includes three parts: supplementation, support, and therapy. When? and how? to use nutrition support which should be related with clinical outcome of the patients. Parenteral nutrition became widely accepted in the States since the presentation at American College of Surgeons Congress 1967 by Dudrick et al. More detail study of baby growth and development receiving all nutrients exclusively by vein from Wilmore et al 1968. In China, it was Jiang et al reported the clinical applications of parenteral nutrition at Surgical Congress of Chinese Medical Association 1978. Enteral elemental diet and parenteral nutrition for intestinal fistulae illness by Jiang et al 1979 which enrolled by Medline. Although nutrition support has become a standardized technology in China, but evidences on improving the patients' outcomes were still insufficient. After Kondrup et al estsblished Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 tool, the nutrition support could use an evidence-based approaching with outcome. One prospective cohort study based on hospitals in Baltimore and Beijing, using Nutrition Risk Screening 2002 as the tool, have evaluated the impact of nutritional support (both parenteral and enteral nutrition) on the infective complications among patients at nutritional risk and demonstrated that the overall incidence of complications was significantly lower in patients who had received nutritional support, which was achieved mainly due to the decline of the incidence of infective complications. Therefore, support with appropriate nutrients being necessary for patients at nutritional risks or already with malnutrition. However, more cohort studies and randomized controlled studies with larger samples are still required.

ObjectiveTo evaluate the impact of omega-3 fatty acids intervention on clinical outcomes in postoperative patients with parenteral nutrition (PN). MethodsLiteratures relating to the evaluation of the clinical outcomes after supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids after selective surgeries were searched in databases including PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Chinese Biomedical Databases, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and Wanfang Database etc. All the eligible studies were randomized controlled trials and their results were published from January 1996 to June 2010. The methodological quality was assessed using Jadad scale, Schulz allocation concealment tool, and methodology review. Meta analysis was conducted using RevMan 5.1 software. The impact was described in terms of complications of infection, case-fatality rate, length of postoperative hospital stay, and length of postoperative ICU stay. ResultsTotally 320 articles were found and 17 randomized controlled trials ( n =1213 ) entered final meta analysis study. The results showed a significant decrease in the infectious complication rates of postoperative patients receiving omega-3 fatty acids intervention [risk ratio (RR) =0.44, 95％ confidence interval (CI) (0.30, 0.64), P ＜0.0001] ; meanwhile, the length of hospital stay was significantly shortened [mean difference (MD) =- 1.65 ; 95％ CI ( - 2.72, - 0.58), P =0.003]. However,the length of ICU stay showed no significant difference [MD =-0.31,95％ CI ( - 1.20, 0.58), P =0.500].ConclusionOmega-3 fatty acids interventions can benefit postoperative patients by reducing the morbidity of postoperative infectious complications and shortening the length of hospital stay.

0.05). Body weight, blood pressure, blood routine test and blood biochemical parameters did not change in the two groups. Only mild side reactions of aescin was found and there was no dropout in the study group, whereas 7 patients dropped out in the control group due to the intolerance for the pressure. Conclusion Aescin has similar efficacy and fewer side effects compared with the compression stocking method in the treatment of chronic venous insufficiency.

Objective To use a measurement tool to assess systematic reviews (AMSTAR) to assess the methodological quality of published meta-analyses of intravenous fish oil interventions on clinical outcomes in postoperative or intensive care unit (ICU) patients supported with parenteral nutrition (PN).Methods PubMed,EMBASE,Cochrane Library,Web of Science,Chinese Biomedical Databases,China National Knowledge Infrastructure,Wanfang Database,and some other databases were searched to retrieve the eligible studies published from January 1996 to September 2013,and the relevant journals and the references of included studies were also retrieved manually.The studies were included if they were systematic reviews or meta-analyses that evaluated the effects of fish oil-enriched PN and standard PN for postoperative or ICU patients on clinical outcome.Two reviewers screened the literature according to the inclusion criteria and extracted the data.Then the AMSTAR was used to evaluate the quality of the included studies.Results A total of five relevant meta analyses were included.Based on AMSTAR,two studies were of high quality,one of moderate quality,and the other two were of low quality.Conclusions The methodological quality of these five published metaanalyses of intravenous fish oil interventions is uneven.Further large-scale and high-quality randomized controlled trials about the impact of intravenous fish oil on clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness analysis for postoperative and ICU patients are needed.

From August 6 to 8, 2010, the 23 rd "Nutritional risk, malnutrition, nutritional support, outcome, and cost-effective" workshop was held in Beijing. There were 30 participants from Beijing, Tianjin,Chongqing, Chengdu, Kunming, Guiyang, Guangzhou, Songyuan, Weifang, Guilin, Urumqi, Qingdao, Yueyang, and Qinhuangdao. The workshop has 2 sections. Section 1: Learn the published papers from ( 1 ) Jie B,Jiang ZM, Nolan MT, et al. Impact of nutritional support on clinical outcome in patients at nutritional risk: a multicenter, prospective cohort study in Baltimore and Beijing teaching hospitals. Nutrition, 2010, (9); (2)Braga M, Gianotti L. Preoperative immunonutrition: cost-benefit analysis. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr,2005, 29 ( 1 Suppl): S57-S61; and ( 3 ) Jiang ZM, Wilmore DW, Wang XR, et al. Randomized clinical trial of intravenous soybean oil alone versus soybean oil plus fish oil emulsion after gastrointestinal cancer surgery. Br J Surg, 2010, 97 (6): 804-809. Section 2: Discuss two protocols for cohort study and for randomized clinical trial (RCT). The cohort study is to continue the investigations of the impact of nutritional support for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) on outcome and cost/effectiveness, and the RCT protocol is to plan a new protocol about the impact of fish oil on postoperative outcome and cost/effectiveness. The second protocol also asked Professor Kondrup to join with as the co-principal investigator. At the pilot period, the fish oil study is an open RCT because the costs of nutrients need to be paid by patients himself (herself). To apply the support for nutrients is on the schedule. The 24th workshop will bo held on December 17-19, 2010 in Beijing.

Many medical journals have already digitalized their publishing procedure,but not achieved digital publishing yet.Utilizing digital technology,digital publishing can achieve the functions that paper media cannot,such as information storage,fast search,real-time publishing,individualized information and interaction with readers.These functions entail digitalization of medical journals,and involve a range of macro- and micro-modifications,including laws,industry policies,personnel training,and culture development.There is a long way to go for Chinese medical journals to enter the stage of digital publishing.