Chen Yong, Zhu Chengcheng, Xu Zhangmeng, Song Yang, Zhang Hong
Department of Emergency.
Department of Galactophore, Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2020 Oct 2;99(40):e22231. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000022231.
There is a worldwide outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), at present, accumulative attention has been paid to COVID-19 due to its global prevalence. Acupuncture may play a beneficial role in patients who suffer from COVID-19. In China and East Asia, acupuncture has been widely used to treat diverse diseases for thousands of years, as an important method of treatment now, it plays an indispensable role in the treatment of respiratory diseases in China. This study is designed to determine the efficacy and safety of acupuncture in COVID-19.
We will search the following sources for the Randomized controlled trials (RCT): The Cochrane Library, PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure Database (CNKI), Chinese Science, and the Wanfang Database. All the above databases will be searched from the available date of inception until the latest issue. No language or publication restriction will be used. Primary outcomes will include chest CT and nucleic acid detection of respiratory samples.
The results will provide a high-quality synthesis of current evidence for researchers in this subject area.
The conclusion of our study will provide evidence to evaluate whether acupuncture is an effective treatments for patients suffering from COVID-19.
CRD42020180875.
2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）正在全球爆发，目前，由于其在全球的流行，COVID-19已受到越来越多的关注。针灸可能对COVID-19患者发挥有益作用。在中国和东亚，针灸数千年来一直被广泛用于治疗各种疾病，作为一种重要的治疗方法，它在中国呼吸系统疾病的治疗中发挥着不可或缺的作用。本研究旨在确定针灸治疗COVID-19的疗效和安全性。
我们将检索以下来源的随机对照试验（RCT）：考克兰图书馆、PubMed、EMBASE、科学网、中国生物医学文献数据库（CBM）、中国知网数据库（CNKI）、中国科学和万方数据库。所有上述数据库将从创建之日起至最新一期进行检索。不设语言或出版限制。主要结局将包括胸部CT和呼吸道样本的核酸检测。
结果将为该领域的研究人员提供高质量的当前证据综合。
我们研究的结论将为评估针灸是否是治疗COVID-19患者的有效疗法提供证据。
PROSPERO注册号：CRD42020180875。
