Scope: professional education and governance analysis, not patient-specific medical, reimbursement, or legal advice. Translations of China-specific policy terms are unofficial.
Executive takeaways
- Modern diagnoses do not map one-to-one to TCM disorders, patterns, or constitutions.
- Parallel presentation does not prove conceptual interchangeability or superiority of combined treatment.
- Red flags, emergencies, and delay risk take priority over framework comparison.
Scope and reading boundary
Organises two medical languages around one patient problem while keeping diagnosis, pattern, evidence, and safety boundaries explicit.
This overview maps sources, terminology, and evidence. Each entity page still requires its own provenance, release, and safety review; a collection overview cannot support an individual care decision.
Four-layer knowledge map
Every term passes identity, traditional context, modern evidence, and safety checks before publication.
- Shared entry: symptoms, duration, severity, functional impact, and red flags.
- Modern side: definition, differential, tests, guideline care, and follow-up.
- TCM side: disorder name, four examinations, pattern framework, and terminology provenance.
- Evidence bridge: discuss integration only when population, intervention, comparator, and outcomes are explicit.
How sources and evidence are graded
Current pharmacopoeias, standards, textbooks, guidelines, and original research have distinct roles. Textbooks explain disciplinary structure, standards fix names and fields, and clinical claims return to the actual population and study design. Mechanistic, animal, or laboratory findings are not human effectiveness claims.
A safer path through the site
Read the overview first, then verify identity and provenance on the entity page. Symptoms, medicines, needling, and disease management require qualified individual judgement. Emergencies and red flags always take priority.
Cross-system control table
| Clinical event | Payment context | Review signal | Hospital action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care, medicine, device, or documentation changes | Separate FFS, DRG/DIP, and fixed-payment effects | Reconcile orders, records, charges, claims, and outcomes | Verify facts, correct records and rules, document remediation |
Updated 2026-07-06. Always verify the current national and local documents before operational use.