The journal aims to promote the development of Chinese medicine as an integrative approach by providing high-quality evidence to support the use of Chinese medicine in healthcare by improving scientific decision making.

The journal receives submissions from multiple disciplines in relation to evidence-based medicine in Chinese medicine and integrative medicine, which cover the following areas:

(1) Methodology and techniques: Methodological research on Chinese medicine and integrative medicine - therapeutic evaluation, evidence grading and evaluation, methods in guideline development, development of novel clinical evaluation scales, disease risk and intervention prediction models, and artificial intelligence and its application;

(2) Evidence synthesis: Systematic review/meta-analysis, network analysis, bibliometric studies, scoping reviews and visualization analysis;

(3) Standards & norms: Clinical practice guidelines, clinical pathways, expert review and consensus and reporting standards;

(4) Technology assessment: Technology assessment (specific diseases and treatments research, medical technology assessment, and screening and application of technology), pharmacoeconomic studies;

(5) Evidence-based decision-making: Evidence-based clinical practice, evidence-based public health, evidence-based policy making, clinical audit, and implementation science;

(6) Evidence-based clinical studies: Generation of reliable evidence through clinical trials, real world studies, mixed methods research, health services research, health economic analysis.