Traditional Chinese medicine for knee osteoarthritis: An overview of systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been accepted as a complementary therapy for knee osteoarthritis. However, the efficacy and safety of the intervention were still conflicting and uncertain. Meanwhile, the quality of methodology and evidence in the field was unknown.

Objective

To summarize the characteristics and critically evaluate the quality of methodology, as well as the evidence of systematic reviews (SRs) on TCM for knee osteoarthritis.

Methods

Five electronic databases were searched from inception to April 2016. The methodological quality of the included studies was assessed by AMSTAR and ROBIS. The quality of the evidence was determined using the GRADE approach.

Results

Ten SRs were included. The conclusions suggest that TCM provides pot

SUBMITTER: Yang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5739454 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature