• 1. First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300193, P.R.China;
  • 2. Evidence-based Medicine Center, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300193, P.R.China;
  • 3. Graduate School of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300193, P.R.China;
  • 4. Laboratory for Biological Effects of massage, State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300193, P.R.China;
  • 5. The First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300193, P.R.China;
WANG Jingui, Email: wjg65tj@163.com
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Objectives To evaluate the methodology quality and report quality of the published systematic reviews/meta-analyses (SRs/MAs) of pediatric tuina domestically and abroad.Methods CBM, VIP, CNKI, WanFang Data, PubMed, EMbase, and The Cochrane Library were electronically searched to collect published pediatric tuina SRs/MAs from inception to December 10th, 2018. The SRs/MAs which includes scale evaluation used AMSTAR2 and the PRISMA report quality evaluation tool to systematically review methodology, adopts Excel to carry out data collation and statistical analysis. Results A total of 18 studies (14 in Chinese and 4 in English) on the SRs/MAs of pediatric tuina were finally included. In terms of methodological quality, 6 studies were of low quality and 12 studies were of very low quality. All studies did not explain the reasons for adopting a particular research design type, and few of them explained the pre-plan, exclusion list, reasons and funding. In terms of report quality, 7 studies were relatively complete, 10 studies had certain defects and one study had serious defects. The existing problems were program and registration, comprehensive retrieval, information sources, financial support and so on. Conclusions SRs/MAs of pediatric tuina have different degrees of issues in terms of methodological quality and report quality which still require further improvement and continuous strengthening.

Citation: WANG Xiaoyu, WANG Hucheng, LIU Leilei, LI Huanan, SUN Qing, ZHANG Wei, WANG Jingui. Quality assessment of pediatric tuina systematic reviews/meta-analyses. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2019, 19(9): 1106-1112. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201901086 Copy

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