The formulation of norms for the clinical practice guidelines integrating traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, T/CAS 767-2023

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Main technical content: 1. Scope This document specifies the principles, process, and methods for formulating, promoting, and updating clinical practice guidelines for the integration of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine. This document applies to original and updated clinical practice guidelines for the integration of TCM and Western medicine. It does not apply to imported or adapted clinical practice guidelines for the integration of TCM and Western medicine. 2. Normative referencing documents This document does not have any normative referencing documents. 3. Terms and definitions The following terms and definitions apply to this document: 3.1 Clinical practice guideline (CPG) A document that provides optimal guidance based on evidence from systematic reviews for specific clinical problems in patients, after balancing the pros and cons of various alternative interventions. Note: Hereinafter referred to as "guidelines". 3.2 Clinical practice guidelines for the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine A clinical practice guideline that fully absorbs the characteristics of TCM and Western medicine, combines their advantages in specific clinical stages, and integrates them into clinical treatment pathways to provide actionable TCM and Western medicine recommendations for TCM, Western medicine, and integrated TCM-Western medicine practitioners. Note: Except for the newly proposed "clinical practice guidelines for the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine" in this document, which uses the term "integration of TCM and Western medicine", all other guidelines in the field of TCM-Western medicine integration or terms related to the TCM-Western medicine discipline continue to use the term "TCM-Western medicine integration".

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