Development Status, Challenges, and Strategies of Clinical Practice Guidelines in Traditional Chinese Medicine Orthopedics

Clinical practice guidelines can standardize medical behaviors, improve the quality of medical services, rationalize resource allocation, and safeguard the rights of patients. However, all of these are achieved based on the rigorous design, scientific formulation, and standardized reporting of guidelines. With the nation's high attention to the standardization of traditional Chinese medicine, many clinical practice guidelines for traditional Chinese medicine or integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine have been published. Traditional Chinese medicine orthopedics, as a discipline with obvious advantages in specialization in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, is witnessing a rapid increase in the number of clinical practice guidelines, prompting the discipline to gradually move towards standardization, modernization, and internationalization. However, many issues are increasingly emerging in this context, attracting widespread attention from researchers. This article systematically reviews an