Evidence evaluation of acupuncture and its related therapies for female urinary incontinence: an overview and quality assessment of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Through methodological quality assessment, this paper summarized the report quality and evidence level of systematic reviews (SRs)/meta-analyses (MAs) of acupuncture and its related treatment of female urinary incontinence (UI).

Evidence acquisition

We conducted a comprehensive search in four internationally recognized databases (PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library) for SRs/MAs pertaining to the treatment of female UI using acupuncture and its related therapies. We evaluated the methodological quality of the SRs/MAs using the "Assessing the Methodological Quality of Systematic Reviews 2" (AMSTAR-2) tool, assessed the quality of evidence using the "Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation" (GRADE) system, and evaluated the

SUBMITTER: Song X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11559254 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature