ArticleChinese journal of integrative medicine2017
Recommendations for acupuncture in clinical practice guidelines of the national guideline clearinghouse.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Comprehensive consideration of multiple determinants from evidence to recommendations in guidelines for most traditional Chinese medicine was suboptimal: a systematic review.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2024Pooled it
- Efficacy of acupuncture for depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of Acupuncture on Postoperative Pain in Patients after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2023Article
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- Dissemination of Acupuncture-Moxibustion Clinical Practice Guidelines among Clinical Practitioners: A Systematic Review of Quality Assessment Studies.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022Review
- Assessment of reporting quality in randomized controlled trials of acupuncture for labor pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Low methodological quality of systematic reviews on acupuncture: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical research methodology · 2021Article
- Exploration of Stratified Evidence Scoring Method of Acupuncture Clinical Practice Guidelines.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2021Article
- A Protocol of a Guideline to Establish the Evidence Ecosystem of Acupuncture.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- The Role of Neuroglial Crosstalk and Synaptic Plasticity-Mediated Central Sensitization in Acupuncture Analgesia.Neural plasticity · 2021Review
- Informing the model of care for an academic integrative healthcare centre: a qualitative study exploring healthcare consumer perspectives.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2020Article
- Do acupuncture trials have lower risk of bias over the last five decades? A methodological study of 4 715 randomized controlled trials.PloS one · 2020Article
- Reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses of acupuncture: the PRISMA for acupuncture checklist.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo organize the clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) related to acupuncture included in the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) to systematically summarize the diseases and disorders most commonly treated with acupuncture, the strength of recommendations for acupuncture and the quality of evidence.
methodsThe NGC database was systematically searched for guidelines that included acupuncture as an intervention. Two independent reviewers studied the summaries and the full texts of the guidelines and included guidelines based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Thirty-nine guidelines were collected with 80 recommendations. The Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) II instrument was used to assess the quality of these guidelines.
resultsOf the 80 recommendations on acupuncture, 49 recommendations were clearly for acupuncture, 25 recommendations were against acupuncture and 6 recommendations did not indicate any clear recommendations, 37 recommendations were for painful diseases/disorders, and 12 recommendations were for non-painful diseases/disorders. Locomotor system disorders were the most common in the painful diseases/disorders category. Out of all the recommendations for acupuncture, most recommendations (87.76%) were weak in strength, and most of the evidence (40.84%) was of low quality.
conclusionsIn the National Guideline Clearinghouse, the recommendations for acupuncture focus on painful diseases/disorders. The recommendations in the guidelines are not high in strength, and most of the evidence is moderate or low in quality.
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