• 1. Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, 100700, P.R.China;
  • 2. School of Chinese Medicine of HongKong Baptist University, HongKong, 999077, P.R.China;
TIAN Guihua, Email: rosetgh@163.com
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Objectives To conduct an overview of systematic reviews (SRs) on Tuina from 2013 to 2017, and to explore recent research improvements on Tuina.Methods PubMed, Web of Science, The Cochrane Library, SpringerLink e-book database, CNKI, VIP, WanFang Data and CBM databases were searched to collect SRs including randomized controlled clinical trials on Tuina from January 1st, 2013 to December 31st, 2017. Two reviewers independently screened literature, extracted data, and used AMSTAR 2 tool and PRISMA statement to assess methodology quality and reporting quality of included studies, respectively. The R 3.4.3 software was used to analyze data.Results A total of 8 SRs studies were included in the overview. The studied diseases involved radiculopathy cervical spondylotic, myelopathy cervical spondylotic, constipation, child anorexia, child diarrhea and external humeral epicondylitis. The results of above SRs showed that massage might be superior to other interventions in clinical efficacy, curative effects or total effective rate. However, due to the low quality of included studies of SRs, further evidence from high-quality clinical studies is required to verify above conclusions. For the results of AMSTAR 2 assessment, all 8 SRs were rated as very low quality. The quantity of items accomplished for each SR ranged from 7 to 13, 2 SRs had low methodological quality (percentage of accomplishment or partial accomplishment <50.0%) and 6 SRs with high methodological quality (percentage of accomplishment or partial accomplishment ≥50.0%). All 8 SRs did not report item 2 "Whether to declare research methods", item 10 "Whether reports have included funding sources for each study" and item 11 "Whether reports used the correct statistical method". The results of PRISMA assessment showed that all SR had good quality of reporting. The accomplished items number of each SR ranged from 22 to 26. However, there were defects in item 5(0), item 16(25.0%) and item 23(25.0%). All SRs did not report item 5 "Whether to declare research program".Conclusions This study finds that Tuina has supportive evidence-based medical evidence for treating anorexia, cervical spondylosis and other diseases, however, the SRs of Tuina are yet needed to be improved in terms of standardized degree. Therefore, establishing a reporting consolidated standard for evidence-based medicine on Tuina in order to improve the quality of clinical studies so as to provide clinicians with high-quality evidence is the focus of our further research.

Citation: ZHANG Xiatian, HU Yeyin, ZHANG Xiaoyu, CHEN Heqing, WANG Xiaoli, LI Xinyi, HUANG Yusi, LIN Yiyi, SHANG Hongcai, BIANG Zhaoxiang, TIAN Guihua. An overview of systematic reviews on Tuina from 2013 to 2017. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2019, 19(3): 361-367. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201806062 Copy

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