T/CACM 1081-2018 Technical Operating Standards for Preventive Medicine in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Meridian Acupuncture and Massage

Scope

Main technical content: This standard is a normative document in China intended to guide and regulate the application of TCM meridian acupuncture and massage therapy in disease prevention. The purpose of drafting and promulgating this standard is to provide hospitals and health care institutions with clinical operation guidelines for this technology, guide relevant doctors and health care personnel to correctly use this method to prevent diseases, make the application of TCM meridian acupuncture more standardized and safer, and thus better serve the health of the general public. This standard is based on the clinical advantages of TCM meridian acupuncture and massage therapy, targeting specific clinical manifestations, referring to ancient literature, modern clinical research evidence, and expert consensus, and combining the values and wishes of people in disease prevention to help massage practitioners and people in disease prevention make reasonable choices. The overall thinking of formulating this standard is: on the basis of the practice and clinical research of TCM meridian acupuncture and massage therapy in disease prevention, combining internationally recognized evidence quality evaluation and grading of recommendation schemes with ancient literature evidence and expert clinical evidence to form a draft standard, and combining clinical research evidence with a wide range of expert consensus opinions to formulate guidance opinions that can ensure clinical efficacy and safety and effectively guide clinical practice. The evidence level of this standard mainly adopts the GRADE system recommended by the World Health Organization, which is an evaluation, formulation, and assessment system for recommendation grading, with recommendation levels divided into strong recommendation and weak recommendation. Strongly recommended schemes are those with relatively low possibility of change and low degree of personalization, while weakly recommended schemes are those with re

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