隐结构分析与西医疾病辨证分型(Ⅰ):基本原理

Latent Structure Analysis and Syndrome Differentiation for the Integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine(Ⅰ):Basic Principle

西医疾病的辨证分型是中西结合研究中的一个基础性难题,以往的辨证分型方案主要是基于专家经验建立的,由于缺乏客观依据,难以形统一的、被广泛承认的标准。本文探讨怎样通过隐结构分析为辨证分型提供客观依据,从而改变这种不理想的状况。

Traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） and western medicine （WM） are usually integrated in heahhcare in China. Patients diagnosed as suffering from a WM disease are further divided into subgroups from the TCM perspective in a process known as syndrome differentiation. Then different TCM treatments are applied accordingly. Syndrome differentiation is a fundamental aspect in TCM research. It is also a difficult problem due to the lack of objective evidence. In this paper, we explain how objective evidence for syndrome differentiation can be obtained using a new data analysis tool known as latent structure analysis.