The methodological quality of the traditional Chinese medicine clinical pathway in China

ID: 

1058

Session: 

Poster session 1 Wednesday: Evidence production and synthesis

Date: 

Wednesday 13 September 2017 - 12:30 to 14:00

Location: 

Exhibition Halls 1 & 2

All authors in correct order:

Ling J1, Pan Y2, Yao L3, Chen Y1, Liu G4, Yang K1
1 1. Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China 2. Key Laboratory of Evidence-Based Medicine and Knowledge Translation of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, China, China
2 Second clinical medical college of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, China
3 1. Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China 2. Key Laboratory of Evidence-Based Medicine and Knowledge Translation of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, China 3. Gansu province people's hospital, Lanzhou G, China
4 School of Law of Lanzhou University, , Lanzhou, China, China
Presenting author and contact person

Presenting author:

Juan Ling

Contact person:

Juan Ling
Liang Yao
Kehu Yang
Abstract text
Background: Thousands of clinical pathways (CPs) have been developed in China to assure quality, reduce risks, increase resource efficiency and control costs.

Objectives: To evaluate the methodological quality of traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) CPs with the Integrated Care Pathway Appraisal Tool (ICPAT).

Methods: A systematically search of the Chinese Biomedical Database (CBM), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and the Wanfang Database was conducted from inception to February 2017. In this study, we extracted relevant characteristic information, and evaluated the methodological quality of TCM clinical pathways with ICPAT.

Results: A total of 27 TCM CPs were included. The publication years ranged from 2010 to 2016. 74.1% (20/27) of TCM CPs were developed based on published guidelines. The evaluation of ICPAT showed that all of the TCM CPs identified the relevant patients in the title; about 22% (6/27) of TCM CPs reported references; 18.5% (5/27) of TCM CPs conducted a literature search, which indicated these CPs were evidence based during the developing process; and, 30% (7/27) of TCM CPs conducted a pilot test before formal publication.

Conclusions: Our study demonstrated that most of the TCM CPs were of low methodical quality which suggested that more effort should be made to improve the quality of TCM CPs according to ICPAT.

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