What is the difference between evidence-based medicine and traditional medicine?

1. Evidence-based medicine: It means "evidence-based medicine", also known as empirical medicine, and has also been translated into evidence medicine in Hongkong and Taiwan Province.

2. Traditional medicine: medicine that uses one or more methods based on plants, animals and minerals, psychotherapy, limb therapy and practice to treat, diagnose and prevent diseases or keep healthy.

Second, the core ideas are different.

1. Evidence-based medicine: Its core idea is medical decision-making (that is, the treatment of patients, the formulation of treatment guidelines and medical policies, etc. ) should be made on the basis of the best clinical research available, and at the same time pay attention to combining personal clinical experience.

2. Traditional medicine: mainly including Chinese medicine, Tibetan medicine, Mongolian medicine, Uygur medicine and other ethnic medicine. In traditional medicine in China, the Han nationality has the largest population, the earliest written language and a long history and culture, so the Han nationality medicine has the greatest influence in China and even the world.

Third, the use is different.

1, evidence-based medicine: it is not to replace clinical skills, clinical experience, clinical data and medical expertise, but only to emphasize that any medical decision should be based on the best scientific evidence.

2. Traditional medicine: empirical medicine is the mainstay, that is, patients are diagnosed and treated according to non-experimental clinical experience, clinical data and understanding of basic knowledge of diseases.

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