T/CACM 1084-2018 The Operational Guidelines for Traditional Chinese Medicine's "Seven-Needle" Technique for Preventive Medicine

Scope

Main technical content: This standard is a normative document used to guide and standardize the operation of the Seven-Needle Therapy in the application of preventing diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. The purpose of compiling and promulgating this standard is to guide acupuncturists and health care practitioners to correctly use the Seven-Needle Therapy to prevent and treat diseases, and to provide clinical operation guidelines for various levels and types of hospitals and community medical institutions in the application of the Seven-Needle Therapy for disease prevention. This standard is systematically developed based on the clinical advantages of the Seven-Needle Therapy, targeting specific clinical situations, referring to ancient literature, the experience of famous doctors, and the best modern clinical research evidence, combined with patient values and wishes. The overall idea of formulating this standard is: On the basis of the practice and clinical research of the Seven-Needle Therapy in disease prevention, the project team follows the concept and methods of evidence-based medicine, combines internationally recognized evidence quality evaluation and recommendation grading standards with ancient literature evidence and expert clinical evidence to form a draft standard, and combines clinical research evidence with a wide range of expert consensus opinions to formulate the clinical operation guidelines for the Seven-Needle Therapy in disease prevention. The evidence level of the recommended schemes in this standard mainly adopts the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) system recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), which classifies recommendations into two levels: strong recommendations and weak recommendations. Strong recommendations are schemes with relatively low personalization and a low possibility of change, while weak recommendations are schemes with a relatively high possibility of change, a high

Development Information

Related Standards