Evaluation and Revision of Guidelines for the Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Morning Sickness of Traditional Chinese Medicine Based on the Delphi Method
Objective:To revise the guidelines for the clinical diagnosis and treatment of morning sickness of traditional Chinese medi-cine.Methods:The literature on the treatment of morning sickness of traditional Chinese medicine published from January 2010 to Feb-ruary 2015 were searched.Combined with the literature research,three rounds of expert questionnaire survey were conducted by using the Delphi method to collect expert opinions,statistics of expert positive coefficient and expert consensus degree;and expert familiarity,expert opinion concentration and expert opinion coordination degree were calculated by SPSS 19.0.Finally,the inclusion entries were determined according to the statistical results and expert consultation results.Results:A total of 141 literature was detected,and 44 of the high-quality target literature met the requirements.Through three rounds of questionnaire survey and expert demonstration meeting,an expert consensus was reached on the terms and definitions,diagnosis,syndrome differentiation,treatment,prevention and nursing of morning sickness of traditional Chinese medicine,and the draft of the revised guidelines for the clinical diagnosis and treatment of morn-ing sickness of traditional Chinese medicine was finally formed.Conclusion:Compared with the 2012 edition,the revised edition of the diagnosis and treatment guideline for morning sickness has modified the symptoms,auxiliary examinations,treatment principles,acu-puncture therapy,added prevention and adjustment,and added literature basis and evidence level for the treatment methods and formu-las and Chinese patent medicines in the original guideline.
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