title: [Analysis of Applying Chinese Medical Clinical Pathway for Treating Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the application effect of Chinese medical clinical pathway for treating attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and to provide evidence for further improving clinical pathways.
  
  
  METHODS
  Totally 270 ADHD children patients were recruited and treated at pediatrics clinics of 9 cooperative hospitals from December 2011 to December 2012. The treatment course for all was 3 months. Scores of attention deficit and hyperactivity rating scale, scores of behavior, Conners index of hyperactivity (CIH), and Chinese medical syndrome scores were compared between before and after treatment. The efficacy difference in various sexes, ages, and disease courses were evaluated by judging standards for Chinese medical syndrome and ADHD.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Fifteen children patients who entered clinical pathway dropped out, and the rest 255 completed this trial. Compared with before treatment, total scores of attention deficit and hyperactivity rating scale, scores of attention deficit and hyperactivity rating scale, CIH, and Chinese medical syndrome scores obviously decreased (all P < 0.01). The total effective rate in disease efficacy was 87.8% (224/255 cases), and the total effective rate in Chinese medical syndrome curative effect was 87.5% (223/255 cases). The clinical curative effect was not influenced by age, gender, or course of disease when statistically analyzed from judging standards for Chinese medical syndrome or for disease efficacy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Intervention by Chinese medical clinical pathway could improve ADHD patients' symptoms, and its efficacy was not influenced by sex, age, or course of disease.
authors.forename: Yu-qing
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Xin-min
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Xian-kang
authors.initials: XK
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Bing-xiang
authors.initials: BX
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Bao-qing
authors.initials: BQ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yan-ning
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yu-lin
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Yong-hong
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yi-min
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Zhi-mei
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Jin-xing
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Wei-zhen
authors.initials: WZ
authors.lastname: Yue
authors.forename: Xi-xiong
authors.initials: XX
authors.lastname: Xiang
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D019091:Critical Pathways; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional