Abstract
Rheumatoid arthritis imposes a huge disease burden. Existing practice guidelines do not meet the needs of integrated traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. We established a guideline working group consists of a steering committee, a secretary group, an evidence evaluation group, a consensus group and a review group and developed a guideline following the guidance of the World Health Organization Handbook and the Chinese Medical Association. The guideline includes 35 recommendations which reached consensus by the two rounds Delphi surveys. These recommendations were formulated to address the following themes of most concern to clinician: diagnostic imaging, disease staging, traditional Chinese medicine syndromes, effectiveness and toxicity of integrated traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 15 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Traditional Medicine Research |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2023 |
User-Defined Keywords
- rheumatoid arthritis
- guideline
- traditional Chinese medicine
- toxicity