Acupuncture for Patients with Atopic Dermatitis: A Systematic Review Protocol

Overview

Journal Medicine (Baltimore)

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2019 Dec 27

PMID 31876756

Authors

Yijiang Liu

Hai Cui

Ruosang Du

Lu Zhang

Hongwen Yuan

Xiaohui Zhang

Shumei Zheng

Affiliations

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Abstract

Background: The systematic review protocol is aim to evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture in the treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD).

Methods: We will search the database on the Cochrane Library, PubMed, Medline, Excerpta Medica Database, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, PsychINFO, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang data, Chinese Scientific Journal Database, including studies and published systematic review in the reference list and grey. And will use Cochrane Collaboration's tools to evaluate the risk of bias of the included randomized controlled trials. The Review Manager 5.3 will be used to synthesize collected data.

Results: This study will assess the safety and effectiveness based on current evidence of acupuncture for AD, especially scoring atopic dermatitis, eczema area, and severity index, patient-oriented eczema measure, and quality of life.

Conclusion: This study will provide high-quality recently evidence for evaluating the efficacy of acupuncture for patients with AD.PROSPERO registration number: CRD42019135919.

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