A Survey of Clinical Evidence Evaluation Systems for Traditional Chinese Medicine

Table 6

Evaluation of TCM evidence using the GRADE system.

Project	Count	Percentage (%)
Generally lower level of evidence limited the usage of GRADE	97	88.2
“Treating the same disease with different methods” leads to higher risk of consistency bias	82	74.5
Higher-priority evidence such as ancient TCM case reports rated lower in GRADE	57	51.8
It can be well applied and improve the decision-making level	42	38.1
Others	8	7.3