Chinese medicine clinical treatment guidelines are the main part of Chinese medicine standards

which can be approved and released by the academic community at present as group standards. As the quality of the guidelines determine the quality of Chinese medicine standards to a large extent

this article raises three aspects to promote the scientific guidelines for clinical diagnosis and treatment in Chinese medicine

including 1) the establishment and revision should combine literature and consensus evidence; 2) the normativity of the guideline reports should be enhanced; 3) the quality evaluation of the guideline content should be emphasized

thus laying a foundation for improving the quality of Chinese medicine standards.