Humans ; Integrative Medicine ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods

Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Treatment Outcome

Diagnosis, Differential ; Health ; Health Promotion ; methods ; Health Status ; Humans ; Integrative Medicine ; methods ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods

Minimal important difference (MID) is a concept in regards of efficacy evaluation in recent years. MID has its features and clinical significance. MID methods include anchor-based methods, distribution-based methods, expert consensus methods, literature analysis methods, and so on. All these methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. In confirming MID, you'd better use them comprehensively according to the research objectives. The significance, range, and evaluation methods of MID in the clinical research of Chinese medicine were clarified. It is necessary to strengthen MID correlated researches and applications.
Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods ; Outcome Assessment (Health Care) ; methods ; Treatment Outcome

Animals ; Education, Medical ; trends ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods ; trends

The purpose of establishing an evidence-based clinical pathway is to standardize the clinical practice, improve the quality of health care and cure patients' illness. Since the core of evidence-based medicine (EBM) lies in implementing the current best available evidence of clinical research to direct the decision making in clinical practice, evidence obtained from research should be kept to either in formulating a clinical practice guideline or establishing a clinical pathway. The EBM method for establishing clinical pathway was introduced in this paper, including setting up a compilation team, raising clinical relevant problems, searching and critically appraising available evidence, and incorporating them into the process of clinical pathway establishment, expecting to provide methodological guidance for establishing TCM clinical pathway in future.
Critical Pathways ; Evidence-Based Medicine ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods

Viewing from some TCM concepts and basic characteristics of health, assimilating the operationalization concerning thinking and procedure of modern scientific research, the pilot form of Health Scale of TCM--initial health scale of TCM (iHSTCM) based upon TCM theory was developed. From November 2002 to January 2003, the domain, facets and items of HSTCM were finally established by analyzing the data from a survey of 652 persons in Guangzhou City using iHSTCM. In conclusion, the HSTCM has its theoretical ratio-nality and is applicable. It could be further applied in TCM clinical practice.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Female ; Health ; Health Promotion ; methods ; standards ; Health Status Indicators ; Humans ; Male ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods ; standards ; Middle Aged ; Surveys and Questionnaires

Viewing from the concept of health and several basic characteristics of health outlook of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), assimilating the thinking and procedure of modern scientific research concerning operationalization, in this paper, the TCM concept of health and its measurement operationalization as well as their relevant things were expounded. And the frame, related domain, indexes and items of health assessment scale based upon TCM theory were tried to be established using opertionalization method.
Health ; Health Status Indicators ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional

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.
Critical Pathways ; Integrative Medicine ; methods ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods

Combined Modality Therapy ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Practice Guidelines as Topic