• Medicine · Dec 2019

    Acupuncture for patients with atopic dermatitis: A systematic review protocol.

    • Yijiang Liu, Hai Cui, Ruosang Du, Lu Zhang, Hongwen Yuan, Xiaohui Zhang, and Shumei Zheng.
    • School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
    • Medicine (Baltimore). 2019 Dec 1; 98 (52): e18559e18559.

    BackgroundThe systematic review protocol is aim to evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture in the treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD).MethodsWe will search the database on the Cochrane Library, PubMed, Medline, Excerpta Medica Database, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, PsychINFO, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang data, Chinese Scientific Journal Database, including studies and published systematic review in the reference list and grey. And will use Cochrane Collaboration's tools to evaluate the risk of bias of the included randomized controlled trials. The Review Manager 5.3 will be used to synthesize collected data.ResultsThis study will assess the safety and effectiveness based on current evidence of acupuncture for AD, especially scoring atopic dermatitis, eczema area, and severity index, patient-oriented eczema measure, and quality of life.ConclusionThis study will provide high-quality recently evidence for evaluating the efficacy of acupuncture for patients with AD.PROSPERO registration number: CRD42019135919.

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