Evidence mapping and overview of systematic reviews of the effects of acupuncture therapies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To provide a route map regarding systematic reviews (SRs) of acupuncture therapies that will meet two goals: (1) to identify areas in which more or better evidence is required and (2) to identify acupuncture applications that, although proven effective, remain underused in practice, and thus warrant more effective knowledge dissemination.

Eligibility criteria

We included SRs that conducted meta-analyses (MAs) of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for this overview.

Information sources

We searched for SRs without language restrictions from January 2015 to November 2020 in four Chinese electronic databases and Epistemonikos database. And we also searched for newly published RCTs that were eligible for selected best SRs in PubMed, Medline, Cochrane Central Reg

SUBMITTER: Lu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9171228 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature