Research on the promotion of implementation of clinical practice guidelines(III): conceptual level de-sign of a knowledge graph for clinical guidelines for Traditional Chinese Medicine/Integrated Tradi-tional Chinese and Western Medicine

The significance of the existence of clinical practice guidelines lies in their implementation, however, there are still many problems in the implementation of guidelines and bottlenecks in the translation of clinical evidence. The introduction of knowledge graph technology provides a solid foundation for guideline intel-ligence and a good tool for solving guideline implementation problems. The combined Traditional Chinese Medi-cine (TCM)/ Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine (IM) reflect the characteristics of the healthcare system in China. Using the current status of TCM/IM diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and the current problems in the application of TCM/IM guidelines for cardiovascular diseases, this study defined the objectives of constructing a knowledge graph for TCM/IM clinical guidelines for cardiovascular diseases, and accordingly designed a knowledge graph framework for TCM/IM clinical guidelines that is con-sistent with professional knowledge and practical application. We analyzed the scope of the guidelines, ar-ranged their content and summarized their knowledge structure. We then established concept structure tables and entity semantic relationship tables. The design of the knowledge graph framework for TCM/IM guidelines proposed in this paper provides a basis for the digitization and communication of guidelines, and is conducive to promoting their implementation and dissemination.