TY - JOUR
T1 - Completeness of reporting acupuncture interventions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
T2 - Review of adherence to the STRICTA statement
AU - Fernández-Jané, Carles
AU - Solà-Madurell, Mireia
AU - Yu, Mingkun
AU - Liang, Changhao
AU - Fei, Yutong
AU - Sitjà-Rabert, Mercè
AU - Úrrutia, Gerard
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the students from the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine Liu Kexin, Zhang Zixuan, Ming Yang, Gao Jiaqi, Li Yilin, Zhang Zhijia, Luo Lingxiao, Shi Yixin, Zhao Luming, Zhang Bingrui, Zhao Leying, Liu Jinjun, Ding Maoyu, Fan Shixuan and Ren Yiming for participating in the project and helping to define the suitability of the data extraction form.The corresponding author is a PhD candidate at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Fernández-Jané C et al.
PY - 2020/11/20
Y1 - 2020/11/20
N2 - Background: The completeness of reporting of acupuncture interventions is critical to ensure the applicability and reproducibility of acupuncture clinical trials. In the past, different publications have evaluated the completeness of reporting of acupuncture interventions for different clinical situations, such as knee osteoarthritis, neurological diseases or cancer. However, this has not been done for acupuncture trials for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Objective: To assess the completeness of reporting of acupuncture interventions in trials for COPD. Methods: A total of 11 English and Chinese databases were screened up until May 2019 for randomised or quasi-randomised control trials of acupuncture for COPD. The STRICTA checklist was used to determine the quality of the reporting of acupuncture interventions. Results: A total of 28 trials were included in our review. Out of the 16 STRICTA checklist subitems analysed, only 4 were considered appropriately reported in more than 70% of the trials, while 7 were correctly reported in less than 30%. Conclusion: The adherence to STRICTA guidelines of acupuncture trials for COPD is suboptimal, and future efforts need to be addressed to improve the completeness of reporting.
AB - Background: The completeness of reporting of acupuncture interventions is critical to ensure the applicability and reproducibility of acupuncture clinical trials. In the past, different publications have evaluated the completeness of reporting of acupuncture interventions for different clinical situations, such as knee osteoarthritis, neurological diseases or cancer. However, this has not been done for acupuncture trials for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Objective: To assess the completeness of reporting of acupuncture interventions in trials for COPD. Methods: A total of 11 English and Chinese databases were screened up until May 2019 for randomised or quasi-randomised control trials of acupuncture for COPD. The STRICTA checklist was used to determine the quality of the reporting of acupuncture interventions. Results: A total of 28 trials were included in our review. Out of the 16 STRICTA checklist subitems analysed, only 4 were considered appropriately reported in more than 70% of the trials, while 7 were correctly reported in less than 30%. Conclusion: The adherence to STRICTA guidelines of acupuncture trials for COPD is suboptimal, and future efforts need to be addressed to improve the completeness of reporting.
KW - Acupuncture
KW - COPD
KW - Quality of Reporting
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097277267&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.12688/f1000research.22843.3
DO - 10.12688/f1000research.22843.3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097277267
SN - 2046-1402
VL - 9
JO - F1000Research
JF - F1000Research
IS - 226
M1 - 226
ER -
