The acupuncture-related therapy for stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A protocol for systematic review and network meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has become a huge economic burden. Increasing randomized clinical trials have favored the efficacy of a specified kind of acupuncture-related therapies (ATs) for treating stable COPD. Nonetheless, comparative efficacy of different ATs for stable COPD remains unknown. Thus, the purpose of this network meta-analysis protocol aims to determine the optimal modality of ATs for treating stable COPD.

Methods

Six Chinese and English mainstream databases, including PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, China Biomedical Literature Database, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure, and Wanfang Database, will be systematically retrieved. The time range of the literature search is from the establishment date of each database to July,

SUBMITTER: Li Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8830870 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature