J Tradit Chin Med. 2014 Jun;34(3):369-72. doi: 10.1016/s0254-6272(14)60104-7.
To survey assesses the perception of pattern identification (PI) diagnosis of Traditional Medicine (TM) by Korean medical doctors (KMDs).
A total of 14,485 KMDs affiliated with the Association of Korean Medicine were sent surveys via email, and 1646 (11.1%) responded to the questionnaire on their perception of PI diagnosis.
Of the 1646 respondents, more than ninety percent (1562, 94.9%) reported that they treated patients using PI. The most critical problem with PI diagnosis was the lack of objective diagnostic indicators (561, 34.1%). Ninety percent had issues diagnosing patients because of different diagnoses between KMDs (1491, 90.5% ). The majority of respondents thought herbal medicine was most related to PI (1528, 92.8%). Half of the respondents answered that PI of Ba Gang was the most commonly used PI system. Participants reported that it was most important to study standardisation of PI diagnosis and to develop standardised PI diagnoses using the classification system of the Korean Standard Classification of Diseases. The foremost PI type that physicians thought should be included in standardisation and objectification of PI ofTKM was the PI of Ba Gang.
Our data suggest that we should focus on the standardisation of PI diagnosis and PI of Ba Gang in future research on PI diagnosis in TM. However, we cannot completely discount the possibility that a biased selection of subjects and a low response rate limit the generalisability of the findings.
调查评估韩国医生（KMDs）对传统医学（TM）模式识别（PI）诊断的看法。
通过电子邮件向韩国中医药协会的 14485 名 KMD 发送了调查问卷，共有 1646 人（11.1%）对他们对 PI 诊断的看法做出了回应。
在 1646 名受访者中，超过 90%（1562 人，94.9%）表示他们使用 PI 治疗患者。PI 诊断最关键的问题是缺乏客观的诊断指标（561 人，34.1%）。由于 KMD 之间的诊断不同，90%（1491 人，90.5%）的人在诊断患者时存在问题。大多数受访者认为草药与 PI 关系最密切（1528 人，92.8%）。一半的受访者回答说，八纲是最常用的 PI 系统。参与者报告说，研究 PI 诊断的标准化和使用韩国疾病分类标准的分类系统开发标准化的 PI 诊断是最重要的。医生认为应该纳入 TKM PI 标准化和客观化的首要 PI 类型是八纲 PI。
我们的数据表明，我们应该在未来的 TM PI 诊断研究中关注 PI 诊断和八纲 PI 的标准化。然而，我们不能完全排除偏倚选择对象和低应答率限制发现的普遍性的可能性。
