T/CACM 1077-2018 Acupuncture: Standard Operating Procedures for Treating the Future Illnesses of Chinese Medicine

Scope

Main technical content: This standard is designed to guide and regulate the standardized application of traditional Chinese acupuncture therapy in the prevention of diseases. The purpose of compiling and promulgating this standard is to provide hospitals and healthcare institutions at all levels with guidelines for the clinical operation of acupuncture therapy in disease prevention, and to guide relevant doctors and healthcare workers to correctly use acupuncture therapy to prevent and treat diseases. This will make the application of acupuncture therapy more standardized and safer, so that it can better serve the health of the general public. This standard is systematically developed based on the clinical advantages of acupuncture therapy, targeting specific clinical situations, referring to ancient literature, the experience of famous doctors, and the best modern clinical research evidence, and combining the values and wishes of patients to help clinicians and patients make appropriate choices. The overall thinking of this standard is: on the basis of the practice and clinical research of acupuncture therapy in disease prevention, following the concept and methods of evidence-based medicine, combining internationally recognized evidence quality evaluation and grading of recommendation schemes with ancient literature evidence and the clinical evidence of famous and elderly TCM experts to form a draft standard, and combining clinical research evidence with the consensus opinions of a large number of experts to form guidance opinions that can ensure the clinical efficacy and safety of acupuncture therapy and effectively guide clinical practice. The evidence level of the recommendation schemes in this standard mainly adopts the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) system recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), which is a system for the evaluation, development and evaluation of recommendation grades, with two levels of r

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