Meta-analysis on integrative medicine for the treatment of malignant ascites: a comparative study

作     者：Li Yuan Lou Yanni Deng Bo Jia Liqun 

作者机构：Oncology Department of Integrative Medicine China-Japan Friendship Hospital 

出 版 物：《Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine》 (中医杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第35卷第1期

页      面：11-14页

核心收录：

学科分类：1007[医学-药学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1005[医学-中医学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

基　　金：Supported by Key Projects of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission(No.#D131100002213004) 

主　　题：Ascites Integrative medicine Treat-ment outcome Meta-analysis 

摘      要：OBJECTIVE: To compare the efficacy of integrated Chinese and Western Medicine with that of only Western Medicine for the treatment of malignant ***: All randomized controlled trials(January 2004 to March 2013) from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure Database, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, and Wanfang Database were searched with keywords. Meta-analysis was conducted by combining the odds ratios of the individual studies. Review Manager 5.0 was used for the ***: One thousand one hundred and fifty-six patients from 19 randomized controlled trails were included. Of them, 630 patients were treated with integrated Chinese and Western Medicine(the integrative group), and 526 patients were treated with Western Medicine alone(the control group). The Meta-analysis showed that the total effective rate was 78.73% in the integrated group, and 59.13% in the control group. The effective percentage was sig-nificantly higher in the integrative group than that of the control group [OR = 2.85, 95% CI(2.16,3.74),P 0.01].CONCLUSION: The short-term curative effect in the integrative group was better than that in the control group. Integrative medicine may be beneficial for malignant ascites.