1.Reporting Status of Clinical Practice Guideline Protocols: A Systematic Analysis
Huayu ZHANG ; Xufei LUO ; Hui LIU ; Qi ZHOU ; Yishan QIN ; Ye WANG ; Yuanyuan YAO ; Haodong LI ; Xiaohui WANG ; Yaolong CHEN
Medical Journal of Peking Union Medical College Hospital 2026;17(1):255-262
To systematically analyzed the reporting status of core elements in publicly available clinical practice guideline(hereafter referred to as "guideline") protocols published domestically and internationally over the past decade, identified existing problems, and provided evidence to inform the standardized writing and publication of future guideline protocols. A systematic search was conducted in Chinese and English databases for clinical practice guideline protocols published during the past ten years. The basic characteristics and reporting of core elements—including registration information, conflict of interest management, evidence grading, development process and timeline planning, as well as dissemination and implementation—were extracted and analyzed. Chi-square tests were performed to explore associations between protocol characteristics and the reporting of core elements. A total of 94 guideline protocols were included, of which 67 were in Chinese(71.28%) and 27 were in English(28.72%). Overall, 82.98% of the guideline protocols were registered, 92.55% reported management of conflicts of interest, 97.87% reported evidence searching, 88.30% reported evidence grading, and 89.36% described dissemination and implementation strategies. However, only 55.32% reported the guideline development process, and merely 23.40% reported timeline planning. Further analysis indicated that the reporting of registration, evidence searching, development process, and timeline planning was associated with year of publication. Differences were observed between domestic and international guidelines in reporting registration, conflict of interest management, development process, time planning, and dissemination and implementation. Guidelines intended for development exhibited higher reporting rates for registration, development process, and dissemination and implementation compared to those planned for updating or adaptation. Although current guideline protocols demonstrate relatively adequate reporting of methodological elements, deficiencies remain in development process and timeline planning. Future efforts should focus on promoting the publication and standardized reporting of guideline protocols, enhancing the international recognition of registration platforms, and strengthening the development process and timeline planning to advance the scientific rigor and transparency of guideline development.
2.Methodological Issues in the Design,Evaluation,and Reporting of Randomized Controlled Trials with "Pattern Dominating Disease"
Lu WANG ; Jiajia WANG ; Yingying ZHANG ; Xufei LUO ; Yaolong CHEN ; Jiansheng LI
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2026;67(14):1497-1502
This study explores methodological issues in the design, evaluation, and reporting of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) under the concept of "syndrome dominating disease". The discussion focuses on key aspects including the adaptability of trial design, the screening of research participants, the standardization of syndrome differentiation, the balance between intervention individualization and standardization, the integration of multi-dimensional outcome measures, and the limitations of existing evaluation and reporting tools when applied to this type of research, along with corresponding recommendations and future perspectives. Regarding research design, it is recommended to select or draw upon innovative design concepts such as basket trials and subgroup-based dynamic/static parallel-group designs, in order to innovate the design format of RCTs. Meanwhile, criteria for participant screening, TCM syndrome differentiation, and disease classification should be standardized. The balance should be appropriately achieved between intervention individualization and standardization, and a multidimensional assessment system encompassing TCM syndromes, disease-specific outcomes, and patient-reported outcomes should be established. For risk of bias assessment and research reporting, it is recommended,to develop specialized assessment and reporting tools based on existing instruments, in order to standardize the assessment and reporting of study findings. Future research may further explore the potential applications of artificial intelligence in the study design, risk-of-bias assessment, and reporting quality assessment of RCTs based on the "syndrome dominating disease" model, with a particular focus on methodological optimization, data integration, and enhancement of research quality.
3.Methodological Issues in the Design,Evaluation,and Reporting of Randomized Controlled Trials with "Pattern Dominating Disease"
Lu WANG ; Jiajia WANG ; Yingying ZHANG ; Xufei LUO ; Yaolong CHEN ; Jiansheng LI
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2026;67(14):1497-1502
This study explores methodological issues in the design, evaluation, and reporting of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) under the concept of "syndrome dominating disease". The discussion focuses on key aspects including the adaptability of trial design, the screening of research participants, the standardization of syndrome differentiation, the balance between intervention individualization and standardization, the integration of multi-dimensional outcome measures, and the limitations of existing evaluation and reporting tools when applied to this type of research, along with corresponding recommendations and future perspectives. Regarding research design, it is recommended to select or draw upon innovative design concepts such as basket trials and subgroup-based dynamic/static parallel-group designs, in order to innovate the design format of RCTs. Meanwhile, criteria for participant screening, TCM syndrome differentiation, and disease classification should be standardized. The balance should be appropriately achieved between intervention individualization and standardization, and a multidimensional assessment system encompassing TCM syndromes, disease-specific outcomes, and patient-reported outcomes should be established. For risk of bias assessment and research reporting, it is recommended,to develop specialized assessment and reporting tools based on existing instruments, in order to standardize the assessment and reporting of study findings. Future research may further explore the potential applications of artificial intelligence in the study design, risk-of-bias assessment, and reporting quality assessment of RCTs based on the "syndrome dominating disease" model, with a particular focus on methodological optimization, data integration, and enhancement of research quality.
4.Advances in the application of Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG in pediatric digestive system diseases
Gaojie LIU ; Xufei WANG ; Yizhong WANG ; Ting ZHANG
International Journal of Pediatrics 2025;52(1):1-5
Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG is one of the most studied probiotic strains,characterized by high acid resistance,high bile salt resistance,and strong adhesion.The main functions of Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG include enhancing intestinal barrier function,inhibiting pathogen adhesion,regulating the body's immune system,which make it effective in treating and preventing gastrointestinal diseases in children and adults.This article reviewes the application research progress of Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG in the treatment of common pediatric digestive system diseases such as necrotizing enterocolitis,infantile colic,non-alcoholic fatty liver disease,inflammatory bowel disease,antibiotic associated diarrhea,irritable bowel syndrome,and acute gastroenteritis in children.
5.Association of serum γ-glutamyltransferase with stroke severity and outcome in patients with acute ischemic stroke
Ruining DAI ; Xufei HOU ; Run MIAO ; Aimei WU ; Chi ZHANG ; Ping WANG
International Journal of Cerebrovascular Diseases 2025;33(4):246-251
Objective:To investigate the association of serum γ-glutamyltransferase (GGT) with stroke severity and outcome in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS).Methods:Patients with AIS admitted to the Department of Neurology, Hefei Second People's Hospital (Guangde Road Branch) from January 2023 to December 2023 were included retrospectively. According to the baseline National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score, the patients were divided into mild stroke group (≤8) and moderate to severe stroke group (>8); According to the modified Rankin Scale score at 3 months after onset, the patients were divided into a good outcome group (0-2) and a poor outcome group (>2). Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to determine the independent influencing factors of stroke severity and outcome, and the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to evaluate the predictive value of serum GGT for poor outcome. Results:A total of 136 patients with AIS were included, with 42 patients (30.88%) in the mild stroke group and 94 (69.12%) in the moderate to severe stroke group; 80 patients (58.82%) in the good outcome group and 56 (41.18%) in the poor outcome group. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that higher serum GGT was an independent related factor for moderate to severe stroke (odds ratio [ OR] 1.075, 95% confidence interval [ CI] 1.017-1.135; P<0.05) and poor outcome ( OR 1.131, 95% CI 1.069-1.197; P<0.05). The ROC curve analysis showed that the area under the curve for predicting poor outcome by serum GGT was 0.820 (95% CI 0.747-0.892). Conclusion:Serum GGT is significantly correlated with the severity of stroke in patients with AIS, and has certain predictive value for poor short-term outcome.
6.Identifying phenotypes of surgical site infection in patients after gastrointestinal surgery
Xufei ZHANG ; Yiyu YANG ; Meilin WU ; Zhiwu HONG ; Huajian REN ; Lei WU ; Xiuwen WU ; Jianan REN
Chinese Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2025;28(1):67-74
Objective:Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common health care-related infection after gastrointestinal surgery. Once SSI occurs after surgery, it can significantly prolong the postoperative hospital stay, increase the cost burden of patients and society, and even endanger the life safety of patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical phenotypes of gastrointestinal surgery, identify the clinical characteristics of SSI, and provide reference for the prevention of SSI after gastrointestinal surgery.Methods:This is a multicenter prospective cohort study that collected clinical data from all adult patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery from March 2021 to February 2022 at 42 hospitals in China, including baseline and perioperative characteristics. Based on the variables associated with SSI, latent class analysis (LCA) was used to explore the population characteristics of SSI.Results:In total, 16 087 patients were included in the study, of whom 345 (2.1%) developed SSI. LCA analysis revealed that patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery were classified into four clinical phenotypes, including α (3851), β (1538), γ (6387), and δ (4311). Type α had minimal abnormality on related system functions (ASA score > 2: 4.5% [173/3851]), and mainly underwent appendix surgery (98.9% [3808/3851]). The postoperative SSI incidence of type α was 0.4% (16/3,851), which belonged to the group of SSI low risk. The abnormality of system functions of type β (ASA score > 2: 17.4% [268/1538]) was worse than that of type α. Type β mainly underwent stomach surgery (72.4% [1113/1538]), and its incidence of postoperative SSI was 1.2% (18/1538), belonging to the group of SSI medium risk. The ASA score of type γ (ASA score > 2: 18.0% [1148/6387]) was comparable to that of type β. Type γ mainly received colorectal surgery (colon surgery: 40.1% [2562/6387]; rectal surgery: 33.6%[2143/6387]), and its incidence of postoperative SSI was 1.7% (106/6387), belonging to the group of SSI medium risk. Type δ (ASA score > 2: 23.5%[1015/4311]) was the most serious type with the highest proportion of open surgery. Type δ mainly underwent small intestine (54.0%[2327/4311]) and stomach surgery (32.3% [1392/4311]) and had the highest incidence of SSI (4.8% [205/4311]) and the highest mortality rate (0.6% [24/4311]), belonging to the group of SSI high risk. Compared with type α and β, the median length of hospital stay (α, β, γ, and δ: 5.0 days, 9.6 days, 13.0 days, and 16.0 days, P<0.001) and postoperative hospital stay (α, β, γ, and δ: 4.0days, 6.0days, 8.3 days, and 10.0 days, P<0.001) of type γ and δ were significantly increased, and the median medical costs (α, β, γ, and δ: 14 178.7 yuan, 39 514.2 yuan, 62 893.0 yuan and 57 266.6 yuan, P<0.001) were also significantly increased. Conclusion:LCA analysis elucidated four clinical phenotypes of patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery. Type α had a low risk of SSI. Type β and γ had a medium risk of SSI, and type δ had a high risk of SSI.
7.Identifying phenotypes of surgical site infection in patients after gastrointestinal surgery
Xufei ZHANG ; Yiyu YANG ; Meilin WU ; Zhiwu HONG ; Huajian REN ; Lei WU ; Xiuwen WU ; Jianan REN
Chinese Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2025;28(1):67-74
Objective:Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common health care-related infection after gastrointestinal surgery. Once SSI occurs after surgery, it can significantly prolong the postoperative hospital stay, increase the cost burden of patients and society, and even endanger the life safety of patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical phenotypes of gastrointestinal surgery, identify the clinical characteristics of SSI, and provide reference for the prevention of SSI after gastrointestinal surgery.Methods:This is a multicenter prospective cohort study that collected clinical data from all adult patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery from March 2021 to February 2022 at 42 hospitals in China, including baseline and perioperative characteristics. Based on the variables associated with SSI, latent class analysis (LCA) was used to explore the population characteristics of SSI.Results:In total, 16 087 patients were included in the study, of whom 345 (2.1%) developed SSI. LCA analysis revealed that patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery were classified into four clinical phenotypes, including α (3851), β (1538), γ (6387), and δ (4311). Type α had minimal abnormality on related system functions (ASA score > 2: 4.5% [173/3851]), and mainly underwent appendix surgery (98.9% [3808/3851]). The postoperative SSI incidence of type α was 0.4% (16/3,851), which belonged to the group of SSI low risk. The abnormality of system functions of type β (ASA score > 2: 17.4% [268/1538]) was worse than that of type α. Type β mainly underwent stomach surgery (72.4% [1113/1538]), and its incidence of postoperative SSI was 1.2% (18/1538), belonging to the group of SSI medium risk. The ASA score of type γ (ASA score > 2: 18.0% [1148/6387]) was comparable to that of type β. Type γ mainly received colorectal surgery (colon surgery: 40.1% [2562/6387]; rectal surgery: 33.6%[2143/6387]), and its incidence of postoperative SSI was 1.7% (106/6387), belonging to the group of SSI medium risk. Type δ (ASA score > 2: 23.5%[1015/4311]) was the most serious type with the highest proportion of open surgery. Type δ mainly underwent small intestine (54.0%[2327/4311]) and stomach surgery (32.3% [1392/4311]) and had the highest incidence of SSI (4.8% [205/4311]) and the highest mortality rate (0.6% [24/4311]), belonging to the group of SSI high risk. Compared with type α and β, the median length of hospital stay (α, β, γ, and δ: 5.0 days, 9.6 days, 13.0 days, and 16.0 days, P<0.001) and postoperative hospital stay (α, β, γ, and δ: 4.0days, 6.0days, 8.3 days, and 10.0 days, P<0.001) of type γ and δ were significantly increased, and the median medical costs (α, β, γ, and δ: 14 178.7 yuan, 39 514.2 yuan, 62 893.0 yuan and 57 266.6 yuan, P<0.001) were also significantly increased. Conclusion:LCA analysis elucidated four clinical phenotypes of patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery. Type α had a low risk of SSI. Type β and γ had a medium risk of SSI, and type δ had a high risk of SSI.
8.Research progress of ferroptosis and ischemia-reperfusion injury
Longcan YANG ; Yongxia CHEN ; Hao LUO ; Yuyou HUANG ; Xiaobin REN ; Bo LIU ; Zhaoming HU ; Xufei TIAN ; Feng ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Hepatobiliary Surgery 2024;30(7):556-560
Ferroptosis is a kind of programmed cell death, involves multi-molecular and multi-signaling pathways, and the core processes is iron overload and lipid peroxidation. It affects cancer, neurological disease, cardiovascular disease, digestive system disease, and many other diseases. While, ischemia-reperfusion injury is an extremely complex pathological process, including ischemia-reperfusion injury of the heart, brain, liver and kidney, etc., which often occurs in shock, organ surgery and organ transplantation, seriously affecting human health, and there is no effective radical treatment. However, ferroptosis is closely related to ischemia-reperfusion injury so that it is possible to find the prevention and treatment measures of ischemia-reperfusion injury by exploring the internal relationship between them. Therefore, the author tries to summarize the signaling pathways of ferroptosis, and explores the relationship between ferroptosis and ischemia-reperfusion injury of heart, brain, liver and kidney by moderating the ferroptosis targets properly to find the effective ways to treat cancer, improve inflammation and relieve other diseases.
9.Evaluation of the quality of Chinese guidelines and expert consensuses on nursing published in 2022
Yingfeng ZHOU ; Shizheng DU ; Xiaoju ZHANG ; Zhiwen WANG ; Liqing YUE ; Xufei LUO ; Yan HU
Chinese Journal of Nursing 2024;59(20):2538-2546
Objective To evaluate the scientificity,transparency and applicability of Chinese guidelines and expert consensuses on nursing published in 2022,in order to improve the quality of guidelines and consensuses.Methods Databases including Medline,Embase,Web of Science,CBM,CNKI,WanFang database,Chinese Medical Journal,and related websites were electronically searched,as well as China Hong Kong,Macao and Taiwan medical journals,to collect Chinese guidelines and expert consensuses on nursing from January to December 2022.STAR tool was used to evaluate the quality of each guidelines and consensuses by 3 assessors independently.Total score,scoring rate of each domain and item were adopted to analyze the outcomes.Results A total of 3 guidelines and 33 expert consensuses were included.The total guidelines and expert consensuses STAR score(33.5±14.3).The quality of guidelines and consensuses was low.The quality of guidelines was moderate with average score of 55.1,and the quality of consensuses was low with average score of 31.5.The included guidelines and consensuses had a highest score rate(52.4%)in the domain of recommendation.Among 39 items of STAR tool,the top 4 items including listing participants and institutions,explaining additional instructions for implementation,describing consensus method,and listing references for recommendations had a high score rate of 100%,83.3%,77.8%,75.0%respectively.However,the items of registration,providing registration information,protocols being searched on public platforms and explaining the role of funding had a low score rate,urgent need for attention and upgrading.Conclusion The overall quality of the Chinese guidelines and expert consensuses on nursing published in 2022 was low.As a medical and nursing practice guidance document,the quality of guidelines and expert consensuses should be improved by encouraging registration,strengthening management of interest conflict,enhancing the rigor of guideline developing process,and expanding the dissemination.
10.Research progress of the role of intestinal microbiota-mediated bile acids in inflammatory bowel disease
Xixi XIA ; Keke DING ; Huiheng ZHANG ; Xufei PENG ; Yimin SUN ; Yajun TANG ; Xiaofang TANG
Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University(Medical Science) 2024;44(7):839-846
It is estimated that approximately seven million people worldwide are affected by inflammatory bowel disease(IBD),causing a huge burden on healthcare systems and society.In the occurrence,progression,and treatment of IBD,the intestinal microbiota and its key metabolic product,bile acids,play a crucial role.The intestinal microbiota not only participates in the biotransformation of bile acids,enriching the diversity of bile acids,but also regulates their synthesis and transport through the farnesoid X receptor(FXR).Meanwhile,bile acids contribute to regulating the structure and function of the intestinal microbiota by supporting microbial diversity,exerting direct toxicity,participating in indirect antimicrobial pathways,and influencing microbial metabolic capabilities.Furthermore,under normal physiological conditions,intestinal microbiota-derived bile acids facilitate the repair process of the intestinal epithelial barrier.They also promote the balance of the immune system by modulating the functions of various immune cells including helper T(Th)cells 17,regulatory T(Treg)cells,CD8+T cells and natural killer T(NKT)cells,thereby slowing down the development of IBD.This article focuses on exploring the role of intestinal microbiota and bile acids in the onset and progression of IBD,and investigating new effective treatment strategies by targeting intestinal microbiota and bile acids,such as bile acid receptor modulators,probiotics,prebiotics,fecal microbiota transplantation(FMT),and phage therapy.

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