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ReviewPediatric research2015

Efficacy and safety of acupuncture in children: an overview of systematic reviews.

Chunsong Yang, Zilong Hao, Ling-Li Zhang, Qin Guo

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Review in Pediatric research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05025384 (Auricular Acupressure as an Adjunct Treatment for Opioid Tapering in a Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit), which is not on this map. Cited by 57 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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57citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05025384 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2021, after this paper: background citation

Auricular Acupressure as an Adjunct Treatment for Opioid Tapering in a Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: A Pilot Feasibility Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorVanderbilt University Medical CenterRan2021 to 2023Enrolled40ConditionsIatrogenic Withdrawal SyndromeArmsAcupressure
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 126 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Chunsong YangDepartment of Pharmacy, Evidence-based Pharmacy Center, West China Second Hospital, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Zilong HaoDepartment of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Ling-Li ZhangDepartment of Pharmacy, Evidence-based Pharmacy Center, West China Second Hospital, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Qin GuoDepartment of Pediatrics, West China Second Hospital, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Sichuan University · CNWest China Second University Hospital of Sichuan University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, acupuncture has increasingly being integrated into pediatric health care. It was used on ~150,000 children (0.2%). We aim to update the evidence for the efficacy and safety of acupuncture for children and evaluate the methodological qualities of these studies to improve future research in this area. We included 24 systematic reviews, comprising 142 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with 12,787 participants. Only 25% (6/24) reviews were considered to be high quality (10.00 ± 0.63). High-quality systematic reviews and Cochrane systematic reviews tend to yield neutral or negative results (P = 0.052, 0.009 respectively). The efficacy of acupuncture for five diseases (Cerebral Palsy (CP), nocturnal enuresis, tic disorders, amblyopia, and pain reduction) is promising. It was unclear for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, mumps, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), asthma, nausea/vomiting, and myopia. Acupuncture is not effective for epilepsy. Only six reviews reported adverse events (AEs) and no fatal side effects were reported. The efficacy of acupuncture for some diseases is promising and there have been no fatal side effects reported. Further high-quality studies are justified, with five diseases in particular as research priorities.

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Acupuncture TherapyChildHumansPatient SafetyRandomized Controlled Trials as Topic

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