title: Developing indicators of pattern identification in patients with stroke using traditional Korean medicine.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The traditional Korean medical diagnoses employ pattern identification (PI), a diagnostic system that entails the comprehensive analysis of symptoms and signs. The PI needs to be standardized due to its ambiguity. Therefore, this study was performed to establish standard indicators of the PI for stroke through the traditional Korean medical literature, expert consensus and a clinical field test.
  
  
  METHODS
  We sorted out stroke patterns with an expert committee organized by the Korean Institute of Oriental Medicine. The expert committee composed a document for a standardized pattern of identification for stroke based on the traditional Korean medical literature, and we evaluated the clinical significance of the document through a field test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We established five stroke patterns from the traditional Korean medical literature and extracted 117 indicators required for diagnosis. The indicators were evaluated by a field test and verified by the expert committee.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study sought to develop indicators of PI based on the traditional Korean medical literature. This process contributed to the standardization of traditional Korean medical diagnoses.
authors.affiliation: Brain Disease Research Center, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ju Ah
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Tae-Yong
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Jungsup
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Tae-Woong
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Moon
authors.forename: Jiae
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Byoung-Kab
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Mi Mi
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: Myeong Soo
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D044466:Asian People; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055670:Medicine, Korean Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D056910:Republic of Korea; D020521:Stroke / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology