Population
25 experts participating in a Delphi survey
Design
Other
Key result
Following a 3-round Delphi survey among 25 experts, translation criteria for 61 (92.42%) traditional Chinese medicine constitution terms were successfully unified.
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May aid standardized TCM terminology use; leaves open empirical validation before clinical adoption.
A Delphi expert consensus approach successfully unified the English translation for the majority of Chinese medicine constitution terms.
Dong et al. (2022) studied Translation of traditional Chinese medicine constitution terms (n=25). Delphi method for term translation was evaluated on Unification of translation criteria for terms. Following a 3-round Delphi survey among 25 experts, translation criteria for 61 (92.42%) traditional Chinese medicine constitution terms were successfully unified.