• 1. Acupuncture & Tuina Department of Qingdao Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Qingdao 266000, P.R.China;
  • 2. Medical College of Acu-Moxi and Rehabilitation, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510000, P.R.China;
  • 3. South China Research Center for Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Clinical Research and Data Center, Guangzhou 510000, P.R.China;
TANG Chunzhi, Email: jordan664@163.com; LU Liming, Email: lulimingleon@gzucm.edu.cn
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Objectives To evaluate the reporting quality of domestic and foreign randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on acupuncture for dry eye based on Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials Expand Statement 2010 (CONSORT 2010) and Standards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA).Methods CNKI, VIP, CBM, WanFang Data, PubMed, EMbase and The Cochrane Library databases were electronically searched to collect RCTs of acupuncture for dry eye at home and abroad from inception to February 2020. The reporting quality of the selected literature was evaluated with the items in the CONSORT and STRICTA, respectively.Results A total of 69 Chinese literatures and 8 English literatures were included. The average reporting rate of all items of CONSORT in Chinese and English literatures was 41.4% and 56.4%, respectively. The missing items of Chinese literature report primarily focused on the sections of “methodology”, “results”, and “other information”. The Chinese and English literature report rate was relatively close in terms of the literature report rate of STRICTA, and both were relatively complete in the description of acupuncture intervention.Conclusions The reporting quality of RCTs of acupuncture treatment for dry eye in China and abroad is generally low. Further improving the relevant reporting quality according to the CONSORT statement 2010 and STRICTA 2010 is urgent.

Citation: XIN Yiqing, CHEN Ze, WU Yunyun, LIU Yuchen, CHEN Huihuan, TANG Chunzhi, LU Liming. Reporting quality assessment of randomized controlled trials on acupuncture treatment of dry eye. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2020, 20(10): 1199-1207. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.202003044 Copy

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