• Di Cao, Qiguang Yang, Fengjun Qi, Shuhong Gu, Tao Yu, Lin Zhu, YiMing Liu, Junjing Gui, Baoru Yang, and Xiaolin Zhang.
• Department of Rehabilitation, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Changchun University of Chinese Medicine (Changchun Hospital of Chinese Medicine), China.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Nov 25; 101 (47): e31697e31697.

BackgroundThere are 15 million new cases of stroke every year in the world, 65% of which have dysuria in the early stage of stroke, which seriously affects the quality of life of stroke patients. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the results of randomized controlled trials to determine whether acupuncture can improve the residual urine volume of the bladder in middle age patients with urinary retention post-stroke.MethodsEight databases, including China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Chinese Scientific Journal Database, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Embase, MEDLINE, PubMed, Wanfang Database, and Web of Science, will be searched using English and Chinese search strategies. In addition, manual retrieval of research papers, conference papers, ongoing experiments, internal reports, etc, will supplement electronic retrieval. All eligible studies published on or before October 1, 2022 will be selected. To enhance the effectiveness of the study, only clinical randomized controlled trials related to the use of manual acupuncture for the treatment of urinary retention post-stroke will be included.ConclusionThe residual urine volume of bladder will be the primary outcome measure, whereas the Clinical efficiency will be the secondary outcomes. Side effects and adverse events will be included as safety evaluations. To ensure the quality of the systematic evaluation, study selection, data extraction, and quality assessment will be independently performed by two authors, whereas a third author will resolve any disagreement.Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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