ABSTRACT
Objective To analyze the clinical application status and existing problems of TCM "preventive treatment of diseases"; To propose corresponding countermeasures. Methods Contrast observation literature about application of TCM "preventive treatment of diseases" in CNKI, Wanfang Database and VIP from 1stJanuary of 2013 to 31stDecember of 2017 was retrieved by computers. Prevention and treatment of people, intervention methods, evaluation criteria, frequency of use, etc. in the literature were analyzed. Results Totally 203 articles were included, involving 37 104 cases. The prevention and treatment of diseases were mostly caused by common chronic diseases and their complications. The prevention and treatment of "the undiseased" involved sub-healthy (28.08%) and healthy (2.46%) people. Intervention methods included medicine treatment, TCM treatment, health management, diet, sports rehabilitation, psychological rehabilitation, etc., and medicine treatment was the main method. The evaluation criteria mostly adopted disease efficacy evaluation criteria. The constituent indicators mainly included syndrome symptom indicators, biological indicators, scale evaluation indicators, and outcome indicators. The most common were syndrome/symptoms/signs (77.66%). Conclusion The clinical application of TCM "preventive treatment of diseases"is widely used. At present, problems, such as few research reports on healthy people, diverse intervention methods but lack of evidence-based evidence, evaluation indicators the same as disease evaluation index system, and lagging effect evaluation standard still exist.