Strategy and Development of the TCM Syndrome-based Treatment Effectiveness Assessment Scale Using the Mode of Combination of Disease and Syndrome

Abstract

The TCM-based syndrome treatment effectiveness assessment scale could provide a basis for objectively evaluating the effectiveness of syndrome-based treatment and enrich the evaluation system of TCM treatment results. There are no unified and standardized methods for developing this kind of scale. In accordance with the international standards for developing a scale and ideas for developing a scale for assessing TCM treatment results as well as features of the TCM syndrome, and the experience of developing Syndrome Therapeutic Evaluation Scale of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, we proposed the general process 〔including seven main parts (forming a research group, pre-designing the basic characteristics of the scale, constructing a framework and item pool, screening the items, forming a draft form of the scale, determining the weight of the items, and test of the scale) , and three key techniques (data mining technology based on association rules and latent structure analysis, item screening based on classical test theory and item response theory, and item weighting based on random forest, factor analysis, and percent weight) 〕 for developing a TCM-based syndrome treatment effectiveness assessment scale, hoping to offer guidance for other relevant studies.

Keywords

• etiological factors and pathogenesis (tcm)|etiological factors symptom complex (tcm)|treatment outcome|syndrome therapeutic evaluation scale of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease|patient outcome assessment|evaluation methodologies