Relationship between traditional medicine and evidence-based medicine

(1) connection: Evidence-based medicine is developed on the basis of clinical epidemiology. It can be said that clinical epidemiology is one of the theoretical foundations of evidence-based medicine. On the other hand, the development of clinical epidemiology needs to absorb and apply the idea of evidence-based medicine. Under the guidance of evidence-based medicine, its clinical application will be more scientific and systematic. Systematic evaluation is a second evaluation of literature under the guidance of evidence-based medicine and clinical epidemiology, and it is a concrete practical process. Without the guidance of evidence-based medicine, the use of literature will only be spontaneous, messy, single and isolated, and the results will be relatively unreliable. High-quality systematic evaluation is the requirement and foundation of evidence-based medicine.

(2) Difference: The core of evidence-based medicine is to establish the idea of consciously seeking, researching and applying the best evidence, and to guide practice in combination with one's own experience and patients' wishes, with the aim of solving difficult problems in clinical medical practice. In this sense, evidence-based medicine is first of all an idea to guide practice and a scientific way of thinking to solve problems; Clinical epidemiology is a methodology to guide clinical scientific research. It uses epidemiological ideas and methods to study sick patients through strict design, measurement and evaluation. Systematic evaluation is a method of rigorous evaluation and systematic synthesis of literature, and its application field is not limited to evidence-based medicine, and the content of evidence-based medicine far exceeds systematic evaluation.