• 1. Evidence-Based Medicine Centre, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, P.R.China;
  • 2. Chinese Evidence-Based Medicine Centre, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
LI Youping, Email: yzmylab@hotmail.com; ZHANG Boli, Email: zhangbolipr@163.com
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Evidence-based Chinese medicine (EBCM) is one of the innovative achievements in the development of evidence-based medicine (EBM) in China. The EBCM has made initial progress: the evidence-based scientific decision-making model has become popular; a series of key technologies for evidence-based evaluation and research of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) have been established; several technical specifications have been formulated in line with international standards; clinical evidence database of TCM has been established; a number of high quality clinical trials have been published in internationally renowned journals; and the International Forum on Evidence based Chinese Medicine(EBCM) has become a brand conference. Difficulties in EBCM development mainly involve: lack of high quality clinical evidence, difficulty in producing evidence, and decentralization of research team. Based on opportunities and challenges of the development of TCM, this article proposed the short-term and long-term goals, implementation paths and five key directions for the development of EBCM in the future, and puts forward three suggestions for further development of EBCM.

Citation: ZHANG Junhua, SUN Xin, LI Youping, ZHANG Boli. Evidence-based traditional Chinese medicine: present and future. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2019, 19(5): 515-520. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201904053 Copy

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