Effectiveness comparisons of acupuncture for psoriasis: A Bayesian network meta-analysis protocol
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Zhi-Yin Xie1, Yu Zhou1, Sheng Deng2
1Department of Dermatology, Beijing Changping Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing.
Background:
Psoriasis is an immune-mediated polygenic hereditary skin disease quality of the patients' life because of the great trouble it causes to patients. Whereas there is variability when we regard the selection of acupuncture treatments in practice and most choices are made based on personal experience or preference of clinician. This study uses network meta-analysis to compare the effectiveness of different forms of acupuncture for psoriasis and assesses the evidence with the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach.
Methods:
We will search for PubMed, Cochrane Library, AMED, EMbase, WorldSciNet; Nature, Science online and China Journal Full-text Database (CNKI), China Biomedical Literature CD-ROM Database (CBM), and related randomized controlled trials included in the China Resources Database. The time is limited from the construction of the library to April 2019. The quality of the included RCTs will be evaluated by the risk of bias (ROB) tool and the evidence will be evaluated by GRADE. STATA 13.0 and WinBUGS 1.4.3 through the GeMTC package will be used to perform a network meta-analysis to synthesize direct and indirect evidence.
Results:
The results of this network meta-analysis (NMA) will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal for publication.
Trial Registration Number:
PROSPERO CRD42019123437.
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