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Development of Rapid Advice Guidelines for the Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 with Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Source :
- The American Journal of Chinese Medicine
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- The worldwide spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus has become a profound threat to human health. As the use of medication without established effectiveness may result in adverse health consequences, the development of evidence-based guidelines is of critical importance for the clinical management of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This research presents methods used to develop rapid advice guidelines on treating COVID-19 with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). We have followed the basic approach for developing WHO rapid guidelines, including preparing, developing, disseminating and updating each process. Compared with general guidelines, this rapid advice guideline is unique in formulating the body of evidence, as the available evidence for the treatment of COVID-19 with TCM is from either indirect or observational studies, clinical first-hand data together with expert experience in patients with COVID-19. Therefore, our search of evidence not only focuses on clinical studies of treating COVID-19 with TCM but also of similar diseases, such as pneumonia and influenza. Grading of recommendations assessment, development and evaluation (GRADE) methodology was adopted to rate the quality of evidence and distinguish the strength of recommendations. The overall certainty of the evidence is graded as either high, moderate, low or very low, and to give either “strong” or “weak” recommendations of each TCM therapy. The output of this paper will produce the guideline on TCM for COVID-19 and will also provide some ideas for evidence collection and synthesis in the future development of rapid guidelines for COVID-19 in TCM as well as other areas.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
030232 urology & nephrology
Disease
Traditional Chinese medicine
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Epidemiology
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Grading (education)
Intensive care medicine
Pandemics
business.industry
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Guideline
General Medicine
COVID-19 Drug Treatment
Complementary and alternative medicine
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Observational study
business
Drugs, Chinese Herbal
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17936853
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The American journal of Chinese medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....58fd19363be292151fe95f0b77bd5ded