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ArticleWorld journal of gastrointestinal surgery2025

The traditional Chinese medicine, electroacupuncture, on enhanced recovery after surgery in the "Healthy China 2030" plan: More robust understanding.

Xin-Zu Chen

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Article in World journal of gastrointestinal surgery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Impact of modified ERAS protocol implementation on length of stay and complications in elderly hip fracture patients: a before-and-after study.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Xin-Zu ChenGastric Cancer Center & Gastric Cancer Laboratory, Department of General Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan Province, China. chenxinzu@scu.edu.cn.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2016, the outline for "Healthy China 2030" plan was issued, and it put forward clear requirements for vigorously inheriting and developing traditional Chinese medicine, which should be an important part of the domestic healthcare system. Electroacupuncture, as a complementary therapy, has significant efficacy and potential in the field of enhanced recovery after surgery based on current available evidence. Despite some challenges, electroacupuncture is expected to play a greater role in healthcare practice through policy support and technological innovation in the future under the "Healthy China 2030" plan.

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Complementary therapyElectroacupunctureEnhanced recovery after surgeryTraditional Chinese medicine

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PMID40584505
PMCPMC12188551

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