Experience inheritance from famous specialists based on real-world clinical research paradigm of traditional Chinese medicine

Abstract

The current modes of experience inheritance from famous specialists in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) include master and disciple, literature review, clinical-epidemiology-based clinical research observation, and analysis and data mining via computer and database technologies. Each mode has its advantages and disadvantages. However, a scientific and instructive experience inheritance mode has not been developed. The advent of the big data era as well as the formation and practice accumulation of the TCM clinical research paradigm in the real world have provided new perspectives, techniques, and methods for inheriting experience from famous TCM specialists. Through continuous exploration and practice, the research group proposes the innovation research mode based on the real-world TCM clinical research paradigm, which involves the inheritance and innovation of the existing modes. This mode is formulated in line with its own development regularity of TCM and is expected to become the main mode of experience inheritance in the clinical field.

Keywords

traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) / real world / clinical research paradigm / famous specialist / experience inheritance

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Acknowledgements

This study is supported by the Special Fund for Scientific Research of the National TCM Industry (No.201207001) and the Construction Fund of the Key Disciplines of State Administration of TCM (TCM Clinical Informatics).

Compliance with ethics guidelines

Guanli Song, Yinghui Wang, Runshun Zhang, Baoyan Liu, Xuezhong Zhou, Xiaji Zhou, Hong Zhang, Yufeng Guo, Yanxing Xue, and Lili Xu declare that they have no conflict of interest. The authors have not performed any experiments that involve human or animal subjects in this study.

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