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ArticleMedicine2020

Moxibustion therapy for chronic spontaneous urticaria: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

Sijia Shen, Meiling Wang, Jingcheng Dong

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Article in Medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sijia ShenHuashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University.ORCID 0000-0002-6228-3275
Meiling Wang905 Hospital of People's Liberation Army Navy, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Jingcheng DongHuashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University.
Fudan University · CNHuashan Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundChronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is a common disease in clinical, and often recrudescent. However, sometimes Western medicine treatments such as antihistamines cannot completely control the symptoms of CSU; therefore, more effective and optimized treatments are needed. Numerous studies have confirmed that moxibustion therapy is effective in treating CSU. Given that no relevant systematic reviews and meta-analysis have been carried out, we set out to prove the effect of moxibustion therapy for CSU.

methodsThis protocol will be conducted based on the PRISMA-P guidelines and comply with the recommendations of the Cochrane Collaboration Handbook for Systematic Reviews. We plan to search the subsequent databases: PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE.com and Cochrane Library, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, WanFang Database, Chinese Science Journal Database, and China Biomedical Literature Database. The studies will be screened under the eligibility criterion. The quality of the studies will be assessed based on the Cochrane risk bias tool. Ultimately, Review Manager 5.3 will be used for statistical analysis.

resultsThis research will comprehensively evaluate the effectiveness of moxibustion therapy for CSU, and provide a more reasonable and effective treatment plan for CUS.

conclusionThis research will bring new evidence for the efficacy of moxibustion therapy in the treatment of CSU and provide a basis for future clinical applications. INPLASY REGISTRATION NUMBER: INPLASY2020100045.

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Chronic UrticariaHumansMeta-Analysis as TopicMoxibustionSystematic Reviews as TopicTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID33181706
PMCPMC7668497
OpenAlexW3105783627

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