The RIGHT Extension Statement for Traditional Chinese Medicine: Development, Recommendations, and Explanation.

ABSTRACT: Nowadays, the number of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) guidelines is constantly increasing, but its reporting quality remains unsatisfactory. One of the main reasons is that there is a lack of suitable reporting standard to guide it. In response to this long-standing problem, the Reporting Items for practice Guidelines in HealThcare (RIGHT) Working Group has invited a group of TCM clinical experts, methodologists and epidemiology, and developed the RIGHT Extension Statement for TCM (RIGHT-TCM) through a multi-staged development process, including systematic review, reporting quality evaluation and online Delphi expert consensus. The RIGHT-TCM extends two sections of the RIGHT Statement, includes basic information and recommendations section. Seven strong recommendation sub-items were a

SUBMITTER: Xie R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7462769 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature