Acupuncture for patients with chronic pruritus: protocol of a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Chronic pruritus (CP) frequently occurs in many skin and systemic diseases, and adversely affects quality of life. This systematic review aims to evaluate treatment effects of acupuncture on CP.

Methods and analysis

An electronic and manual search will be conducted for all acupuncture treatments for CP, from the inception date of predefined database up to 28 February 2020. Databases include PubMed, Embase, Springer, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, the World Health Organization International Clinical Trial Registration Platform, the Chinese Medicine Database, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure, the Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, the China Science Journal Database and the Wanfang Database. Other sources, including existing systematic review

SUBMITTER: Zhang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7440697 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature