CLINICAL RESEARCH EVIDENCE OF ACUPOINT INJECTION:A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
CLINICAL RESEARCH EVIDENCE OF ACUPOINT INJECTION:A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW作者机构:Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese MedicineBeijing University of Chinese Medicine School of Basic Medical SciencesBeijing University of Chinese Medicine School of HumanitiesBeijing University of Chinese Medicine
出 版 物:《Journal of Integrative Medicine》 (结合医学学报(英文))
年 卷 期:2014年第3期
页 面:304-305页
学科分类:1005[医学-中医学] 100512[医学-针灸推拿学] 10[医学]
主 题:CLINICAL RESEARCH EVIDENCE OF ACUPOINT INJECTION
摘 要:Objective: Acupoint injection is a common practice in China, which incorporates Chinese medicine theory and acupuncture therapy for treatment of *** has been used in China for more than 60 years, but there has been no evidence-based evaluation of clinical research on this *** evaluated thetherapeutic effect of acupoint injection for different conditions or ***: We included any clinical studies on acupoint injection regardless of diseases from searching six electronic databases till September *** extracted data on the type of injected medicine and type of *** methodological quality of randomized trials was evaluated by the risk of bias tool of the Cochrane ***: A total of 11 286 clinical studies were identified published between 1957 and 2013, including 3781 randomized trials, 1808 non-randomized studies, 5231 case series, and 466 case *** number of various types of clinical studies was increased from 1957 to ***, the number of the case series soared from 1982 and had a decline since 2002, while the randomized trials increased significantly in *** quality of randomized trials was generally poor in terms of risk of *** diseases in which acupoint injection was commonly employed included hiccup, asthma, diarrhea or various kinds of pain such as *** the studies, the injected medicines included Chinese herbal medicine(16.9%), Western medicine(31.0%), and other types of medicines(14.8%) such as vitamin, sodium chloride, own blood, and mixed medicines(37.1%).Conclusion: Acupoint injection has been used for hiccup, asthma, diarrhea and other *** publications of randomized trials increased during the past decades in ***, the quality of the trials should be improved to support their use in practice.