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. 2018 Feb 5:360:j5158.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.j5158.

Clinical practice guidelines in China

Yaolong Chen  1   2 , Chen Wang  3 , Hongcai Shang  2 , Kehu Yang  4 , Susan L Norris  5
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Clinical practice guidelines in China

Yaolong Chen et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Yaolong Chen and coworkers analyse the situation and challenges for clinical practice guidelines in China and provide recommendations for their development and implementation.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following interests: YC and SLN are members of GRADE working group. YC and KY are supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant No 81503459, 81673825) and the open fund of the Key Laboratory of Evidence Based Medicine and Knowledge Translation of Gansu Province (grant No EBM 1701) to conduct methodological research on clinical guideline development.

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Number of clinical practice guidelines published in Chinese medical journals between 1993 and 2016—a total of 664 guidelines. The data for 1993 to 2010 were derived from Chen et al; the data for 2011 to 2016 are unpublished and available upon request from the corresponding author
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