Oral administration of herbal medicines for the treatment of otitis media with effusion: protocol for a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The purpose of this systematic review is to investigate the efficacy of the oral administration of herbal medicines for otitis media with effusion through analysing trial data.

Methods and analysis

Electronic searches of the following 11 databases will be performed: MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, AMED, the Cochrane CENTRAL, 3 Chinese databases (CNKI, Wangfang Data and VIP Information) and 5 Korean databases (KoreaMed, Research Information Service System, Korea Studies Information System, Oriental Medicine Advanced Searching Integrated System (OASIS) and DBpia). The selection of the studies, data abstraction and validations will be performed independently by two researchers.

Dissemination

The systematic review will be published in a peer-reviewed journal. The re

SUBMITTER: Kim YH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3939645 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature