Protocols for Traditional Chinese Medicine guidelines for acute primary headache.

To further improve clinical workers' Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatment level for headache attack, the TCM Guidelines for Acute Primary Headache has been developed based on the development methodology of the World Health Organization Standard Version guide. The grading of recommendations assessment, development and evaluation (GRADE) method was adopted for the development of evidence, evidence classification, and recommendations that can be systematically evaluated. For evidence lacking clinical research support, the quality of evidence was evaluated and recommended based on the evidence level standard of ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine, and The Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II (AGREE II) and The Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in Healthcare (RIGHT) were referred to. This guideline plan mainly introduces the guideline formulation process of constructing clinical questions and selecting outcome indicators, evidence retrieval, generation of recommendations, .