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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Feb 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Integr Complement Med. 2025 Jan 17;31(4):388–394. doi: 10.1089/jicm.2024.0837

Table 3. Recommendations and Insights Arising from the Workshop Discussion.

graphic file with name EMS202933-i001.jpg TERMINOLOGY AND CONCEPTS
  1. Develop terminology and conceptual frameworks that makes TCIM comprehensible without requiring it to retrofit to the biomedical lens

  2. Address the diversity of classifications and terminology used with reference to:

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    different types of TCIM therapeutic approaches

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    different TCIM therapeutics used for the same biomedical diagnosis

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    different countries for the same TCIM system or practice

graphic file with name EMS202933-i002.jpg TECHNOLOGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
  1. Use advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence

  2. Build a global repository of TCIM knowledges, evidence, and policy

  3. Design (or tailor existing) data systems to collect TCIM practitioner knowledges (e.g., case report portals)

  4. ICD Module 1 & 2 and integration with RHIMS

  5. Develop platforms to support researcher, practitioner, and policymaker collaboration

graphic file with name EMS202933-i003.jpg CAPACITY & GOVERNANCE
  1. Foster culturally-reponsive leadership, champions of knowledge translation, and research skills development for TCIM

  2. Develop TCIM-appropriate and protective governance mechanisms and regulatory pathways

  3. Include TCIM policy-makers and practitioners in knoweldge translation training opportunities

  4. Funding for TCIM research (generation and translation) and practice within health systems

  5. Develop national participatory mechanisms that facilitate co-production, shared decision- making, autonomy and power, inclusive of communication between TCIM groups

graphic file with name EMS202933-i004.jpg TCIM-APPROPRIATE RESEARCH METHODS
  1. Prioritise and innovate research approaches that align with TCIM knowledge paradigms (e.g., evaluates complex interventions and 'whole systems', incorporates TCIM diagnoses, accounts for herbal complexity)

  2. Foster Indigenous research methodologies and their translation, including decolonial scholarly frameworks

  3. Reevaluate evidentiary hierarchies and make use of research rigorously conducted across diverse disciplines, methodologies and methods

  4. Support practice-based evidence and complexity science

graphic file with name EMS202933-i005.jpg IMPLEMENTATION AND DISSEMINATION
  1. Support mechanisms/methods to integrate different knowledge types

  2. Build TCIM knowledge across biomedical practice and research communities

  3. Foster Indigenous-led health care partnerships that incorporate TCIM knowledges and EIDM

  4. Provide TCIM-inclusive community health education platforms, that involve local TCIM systems, practitioners and networks

  5. Develop mandates and approaches for TCIM inclusion in EIDM

EIDM, evidence-informed decision-making; TICM, traditional, complementary and integrative medicine; ICD, International Classification of Diseases