SynthesisPhytotherapy research : PTR2022
Efficacy and safety of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine against COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- An updated meta-analysis of Chinese herbal medicine for the prevention of COVID-19 based on Western-Eastern medicine.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine against COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Phytotherapy research : PTR · 2022Pooled it
- Post-Modern Medicine: A Framework for Integrating Traditional and Modern Healthcare : Post-modern Medicine.Galen medical journal · 2025Article
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- Bibliometric analysis and key messages of integrating Chinese and Western Medicine for COVID-19.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Efficacy and Safety of Huashi Baidu Granules in Treating Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2024Article
- Potential herb‒drug interactions between anti-COVID-19 drugs and traditional Chinese medicine.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2023Review
- Donepezil combined with traditional Chinese medicine has promising efficacy on mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
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Abstract
Although plenty of clinical trials have confirmed the efficacy and safety of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine (ITCWM) against COVID-19, the role of ITCWM remains controversial. So we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies in eight major databases that report the outcomes of interest in COVID-19 patients receiving ITCWM. RevMan5.4 software was used for meta-analysis, while the quality of RCTs was assessed by the Cochrane risk of bias tool and the retrospective studies were assessed by Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Eventually, a total of 53 studies with 5425 COVID-19 patients was identified. The meta-analysis results showed that ITCWM was significantly better than western medicine treatment (WMT) alone in the percentage of cases changing to severe/critical [RR = 0.40, 95%CI (0.33, 0.49), p < .00001, I
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