Treatment of Chronic Pulmonary Heart Disease with Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Protocol for the Development of a Core Outcome Set (COS-TCM-CPHD)

Table 1

Inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
1. P : patients with a clear diagnosis of CPHD	1. Studies of acute exacerbation of CPHD
2. I : intervention measures including TCM treatment	2. Duplicate publications or literature comprising only an abstract
3. O : outcomes included in all studies	3. Studies where the complete raw data cannot be obtained
4. S : RCTs and systematic review of RCTs	4. Literature not written in either Chinese or English
	5. Comorbidities and complications
	6. Animal studies