Guideline for [Clinical Guidelines Constitution/Amendment] in China.

<bold>Quality Problem or Issue: </bold>Chinese medical institutions need clinical guidelines to improve healthcare quality. Unfamiliarity with clinical methodology and procedures leads to poor quality.<bold>Initial Assessment: </bold>This study examined 327 clinical guidelines made in China during the period of 2006-10 and found these clinical guidelines have many problems in terms of guideline making procedures-compliant process, conflicts of interest disclosure.<bold>Choice Of Solution: </bold>Chinese Medical Association organized a working group in 2014 to make a national [Guideline for Clinical Guidelines Constitution/Amendment] and invited multidiscipline experts to prove its possibility.<bold>Implementation: </bold>Experts investigated and reviewed numerous domestic and foreign published literature within the past 2 years, concluded that a clinical guideline should have following seven components: I. Objective; II. General Principle; III. Procedure and Methodology; IV. Confirmation, Publication and Dissemination; V. Update and Amendment; VI. Implementation and Outcome Validation; VII. Reference.<bold>Evaluation: </bold>The [Guideline for Clinical Guidelines Constitution/Amendment] will improve the quality of Chinese clinical guidelines and regulate applications, as well as outcome evaluations of clinical guidelines in China.<bold>Lessons Learned: </bold>Standardized methodology and procedures are important for constituting high-quality clinical guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]