Fig. 5
From: A national survey of Chinese medicine doctors and clinical practice guidelines in China
The Coincidence of clinical practice guidelines for traditional Chinese medicine recommendations and doctor individual interests. a The Coincidence of CPGs recommendations. Seven items include traditional Chinese diagnosis (pink), western medicine diagnosis (grey), syndrome differentiation (orange), CM therapeutic principles (olive), herbal formulae (green), other therapies (blue) and CM health-care approaches (purple). Perceived approval rating for each of the key CM diagnosis and treatment recommendations were determined by calculating the percentage of respondents that either agreed or strongly agreed (score 3 and 4). b The Coincidence of CPGs recommendations and nine specialties. S1: Internal medicine; S2: Oncology; S3: Surgery; S4: Gynaecology; S5: Paediatrics; S6: Ophthalmology; S7: Otolaryngology; S8: Anorectal; S9: Dermatology