Clinical practice guidelines can standardize medical behaviors, improve the quality of medical services, rationalize resource allocation, and safeguard the rights of patients. However, all of these are achieved based on the rigorous design, scientific formulation, and standardized reporting of guidelines. With the nation's high attention to the standardization of traditional Chinese medicine, many clinical practice guidelines for traditional Chinese medicine or integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine have been published. Traditional Chinese medicine orthopedics, as a discipline with obvious advantages in specialization in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, is witnessing a rapid increase in the number of clinical practice guidelines, prompting the discipline to gradually move towards standardization, modernization, and internationalization. However, many issues are increasingly emerging in this context, attracting widespread attention from researchers. This article systematically reviews and summarizes the current status and challenges of the development of clinical practice guidelines in orthopedics of traditional Chinese medicine, and proposes targeted strategies. Currently, the development of clinical practice guidelines in orthopedics of traditional Chinese medicine faces many challenges, including inaccurate positioning of clinical problems, a lack of high-quality clinical evidence, insufficient standardization in guideline formulation, a shortage of multidisciplinary talent development, and various issues regarding guideline updating and implementation. In future research, professional societies/associations should strengthen guidance on guideline formulation. Researchers should focus on improving the quality of original research, enhance learning and research in guideline methodology, prioritize guideline updating and adaptation, and promote the dissemination and implementation of guidelines, aiming to develop high-quality guidelines and promote the standardization of orthopedics of traditional Chinese medicine.

临床实践指南旨在规范医疗行为、提高医疗服务质量、合理配置资源和保障患者权益，但这一切是在指南的严谨设计、科学制订和规范报告的基础上实现的。随着国家对中医药标准化事业的高度关注，许多中医/中西医结合临床实践指南已经发布。中医骨伤科作为中医药领域专业化优势明显的特色学科，临床实践指南的数量正快速增加，促使学科向标准化、现代化、国际化的方向逐步迈进。但在此背景下许多问题也日益显现，引起研究者们的广泛关注。本文系统梳理和总结了骨伤科临床实践指南发展的现状和挑战，并提出了针对性的策略。目前骨伤科临床实践指南的发展面临着临床问题定位不准、高质量临床证据匮乏、指南制订规范性不足、多学科人才培养欠缺、指南更新和实施缺乏等诸多问题。在未来研究中，专业学会/协会应加强对指南制订的引导，研究者要注重提高原始研究的质量、加强指南方法学的学习和研究、重视指南的更新与改编、促进指南的传播与实施，以制订高质量的骨伤科指南，促进骨伤科的标准化建设。