Development of Rapid Advice Guidelines for the Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 with Traditional Chinese Medicine Ning Liang, * Huizhen Li, * Jingya Wang, * Liwen Jiao, * Yanfang Ma, † Xiaohui Wang, ‡ Bin Liu, * Xufei Luo, ‡ Siya Zhao, ‡ Meng Lv, ‡ Jin Cao, ‡ Wenpin Hu, ‡ Hairong Zhang, † Yibai Xiong, * Yaxin Tian, * Yaolong Chen, †,§,¶, || Yanping Wang * and Nannan Shi * * Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Beijing 100700, P. R. China † Evidence-Based Medicine Center School of Basic Medical Sciences ‡ School of Public Health § Key Laboratory of Evidence Based Medicine and Knowledge Translation of Gansu Province Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China ¶ Chinese GRADE Center Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China || Lanzhou University an Af filiate of the Cochrane China Network Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China Published 5 November 2020 Abstract: The worldwide spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus has become a profound threat to human health. As the use of medication without established effectiveness may result in adverse health consequences, the development of evidence-based guidelines is of critical importance for the clinical management of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This research presents methods used to develop rapid advice guidelines on treating COVID-19 with tra- ditional Chinese medicine (TCM). We have followed the basic approach for developing WHO rapid guidelines, including preparing, developing, disseminating and updating each Correspondence to: Prof. Nannan Shi, Prof. Yanping Wang and Prof. Yaolong Chen, Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, No. 16 Dong Zhi Men Nei Nan Xiao Jie, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100700, China. Tel: (þ86) 13811839164, Fax: (þ86) 10-64093279, E-mail: 13811839164@vip.126.com (N. Shi); Tel: (þ86) 13301394816, E-mail: wangyanping4816@163.com (Y. Wang); Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, No. 222 South Tianshui Road, Lanzhou 730000, China. Tel: (þ86) 13893104140, E-mail: chenyaolong@vip.163.com (Y. Chen) The American Journal of Chinese Medicine, Vol. 48, No. 7, 1–11 © 2020 World Scientific Publishing Company Institute for Advanced Research in Asian Science and Medicine DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X20500743 1 Am. J. Chin. Med. Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com by MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY on 11/29/20. Re-use and distribution is strictly not permitted, except for Open Access articles.