Objective To analyze the consistency degree of recommended syndromes and prescriptions among Chinese medical clinical practice guidelines

Chinese medical clinical pathways and matched Chinese medical diagnosis and treatment schemes

in order to provide data support for promoting compatibility and unity of Chinese medical clinical practice guidelines

Chinese medical clinical pathways and Chinese medical diagnosis and treatment schemes.Methods The basic information was extracted from 422 Chinese medical clinical practice guidelines issued by the China Association of Chinese Medicine

and Chinese medical clinical pathways and matched Chinese medical diagnosis and treatment schemes about 304 kinds of disease issued by the Department of Medical Administration of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Differences and similarities of the information on involved diseases

members of drafting panels

syndromes and prescriptions in those documents were compared

and the the Jaccard coefficient method was used to analyze the similarity of syndrome classification and prescriptions. Results There are 183 identical diseases in Chinese medical clinical practice guidelines

Chinese medical clinical pathways and Chinese medical diagnosis and treatment schemes. In disease diagnosis

syndrome classification and therapeutic schedule of Chinese medical clinical pathways the quotation proportions of Chinese medical clinical practice guidelines accounted for 22. 47%

2. 25% and 44. 94%

respectively. The similarity of recommended syndrome classification was 0. 54 between Chinese medical clinical practice guidelines and Chinese medical diagnosis & treatment schemes

and the totally identical content accounted for 18%. The similarity of recommended prescriptions was 0. 38 between Chinese medical clinical practice guidelines and Chinese medical diagnosis and treatment schemes

and diseases with the same syndrome and recommended prescription accounted for 48. 68%. Conclusion There are many differences between Chinese medical clinical practice guidelines and Chinese medical clinical pathways as well as Chinese medical diagnosis and treatment schemes

especially in syndrome classification. Methodological study should be strengthened in establishment of Chinese medical clinical practice guidelines

Chinese medical clinical pathways and Chinese medical diagnosis and treatment scheme

especially in the standard development for Chinese medicine syndrome classification.