Chronic superficial gastritis has the highest incidence in chronic gastrointestinal diseases. Although a consensus has made in the diagnosis and treatment of this disease in western medicine

the evaluation system for therapeutic effects is still unavailable. Relevant efficacy evaluation criteria was established in the field of integrative Chinese and western medicine. The main evaluation indexes include the efficacy of endoscopic gastric mucosa

histological effect of gastric mucosal

traditional Chinese medicine symptoms and syndromes efficacy

quality of life

mental and psychological assessment

etc. Although the evaluation criteria has certain guiding meaning

it still needs to be improved. The problems such as low coincidence rate of endoscopic examination and histological diagnosis before and after treatment

study of syndrome efficacy with few evidence supports

quality of life scale with little of traditional Chinese medicine characteristics

lack of safety and cost benefit ratio evaluation

easily confusion of functional dyspepsia evaluation index

etc. Based on the above

it is suggested that magnifying endoscopy

confocal endoscopy and biopsy techniques are necessary for the purpose of determining the clinical efficacy of endoscopy and histology

evidence based study on syndrome should be strengthened

a quality of life scale with Chinese medicine characteristics should be created

and the evaluation index should be further improved

thus to establish a better evaluation system of TCM comprehensive effect of chronic superficial gastritis.