• 1. Evidence-Based Nursing Center, School of Nursing, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P.R.China;
  • 2. Evidence-Based Medicine Centre, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, P.R.China;
  • 3. Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P.R.China;
TIAN Jinhui, Email: tianjh@lzu.edu.cn
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Objectives To overview the systematic reviews of traditional Chinese herb injections for viral pneumonia.Methods CNKI, CBM, WanFang Data, VIP, PubMed, Web of Science, The Cochrane Library and EMbase databases were electronically searched to collect systematic reviews (SRs) of traditional Chinese herb injections for viral pneumonia from inception to March 2020. Two reviewers independently screened literature and extracted data. Then, AMSTAR 2 was used to assess the methodological quality and GRADE was used to grade the outcome indicators of included SRs.Results A total of 10 SRs were included, containing six Chinese herb injections (Xiyanping injection, Yanhuning injection, Tanreqing injection, Reduning injection, Shuanghuanglian injection, and Chuanhuning injection). Five items of AMSTAR 2 were reported well, and two items were not reported in any of the included SRs, and the quality was unsatisfactory. The efficacy of Chinese herb injection was superior than that of western medicine in many outcome indicators, such as antipyretic time, the pulmonary rales disappearing time, and the total clinical efficiency. The quality of evidence ranged from medium to very low.Conclusions Current evidence shows that the quality of SRs of Chinese herb injections for viral pneumonia requires improvement, and most of the results show that Chinese herb injections are more effective than western medicines.

Citation: YANG Kelu, JIN Xinyao, LIU Ming, GAO Ya, TIAN Jinhui. Chinese herb injections for viral pneumonia: an overview of systematic reviews. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2020, 20(11): 1326-1333. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.202003111 Copy

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