Effectiveness and safety of bee venom pharmacopuncture for rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the common autoimmune disease with low quality of life. The representative treatment is medication and medication usage has improved through update of clinical guidelines, however, there are still limitations. Bee venom (BV) has been reported to have meaningful therapeutic effects and the possibility of alternative options for RA through several types of studies, but there is no well-organised and recent published systematic review (SR).

Methods

We will search randomised controlled trials about the BV on RA from the inception to 31 May 2022 in various databases, manual research and contacting authors. Electronic databases will include MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane library, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, CiNii, J-STAGE, KoreaMed

SUBMITTER: Sung WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8921846 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature