Experts build a questionnaire for a traditional medicine kidney pattern
A literature review and expert consensus produced a symptom checklist, with patient testing still needed to establish screening thresholds.
Based on the published abstract. The full paper may contain additional methods, results and limitations.
The 30-second takeaway
The main output was a proposed screening questionnaire for kidney deficiency pattern in traditional Chinese and Korean medicine. Its content reflects recurring symptoms and expert agreement. The abstract does not show how accurately it identifies patients or predicts later outcomes, and the authors plan a separate study to establish screening cut-offs.
No patient validation results or screening thresholds are provided. Expert agreement on questionnaire content does not, by itself, establish diagnostic accuracy or usefulness for tracking prognosis.
How the checklist was assembled
Researchers reviewed kidney system patterns, then used repeated rounds of expert feedback and consensus meetings to select key elements. A bilingual physician and the research team agreed on an English version of the questionnaire.
What the questionnaire contains
The final tool has 20 elements, organized around general kidney deficiency pattern and its Yin and Yang categories. Their selection identifies what to ask about; patient testing is still needed to determine useful screening thresholds.
The original publication
Key elements for screening kidney deficiency pattern in Traditional Chinese and Korean Medicine: a systematic review and Delphi study.
Jun H, Cho N, Ha W et al.
J Tradit Chin Med · 2025
- PubMed ID
- 41376211
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