Chinese medicine case report, a special method, records the experience of practitioners and guides students to inherit and develop Chinese medicine. It can transfer a large amount of medical and humanistic information and contribute to the development of Chinese medicine. It is a literary style that has been widely accepted and helps to document and disseminate the culture of Chinese medicine. With the advent of big data and information, more Chinese medicine case reports have been published. However, many have insufficient quality to properly guide and apply in the clinical practice, which might be caused by little guidance of Chinese medicine case report standards published. This paper summarized the case report standards, synthesized and appraised the feasibility and problems specific for improving the quality of Chinese medicine case reports, and proposed suggestions and guidance for developing the standardization of Chinese medicine medical case reports.
Citation: WANG Jing, WU Liqun, MA Xueyan, LIU Tiegang, DONG Fei, WANG Yang, LUO Changyong, YU He, GU Xiaohong. Considerations and recommendations for Chinese medicine case report guideline. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2021, 21(11): 1347-1352. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.202106216 Copy