Quality of reporting acupuncture interventions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : Review of adherence to the STRICTA statement
Fernández-Jané, Carles (Universitat Ramon Llull)
Solà-Madurell, Mireia (Universitat Ramon Llull)
Yu, Mingkun (Beijing University of Chinese Medicine)
Liang, Changhao (Beijing University of Chinese Medicine)
Fei, Yutong (Beijing University of Chinese Medicine)
Sitjà-Rabert, Mercè (Universitat Ramon Llull)
Urrútia, Gerard (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Date:	2020
Abstract:	The quality 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 quality 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). To assess the quality of reporting of acupuncture interventions in trials for COPD. 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 3 were considered appropriately reported in more than 70% of the trials, while 7 were correctly reported in less than 40%. The adherence to STRICTA guidelines of acupuncture trials for COPD is suboptimal, and future efforts need to be addressed to improve the quality of reporting.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Acupuncture ; COPD ; Quality of Reporting
Published in:	F1000Research, Vol. 9 (2020) , p. 226, ISSN 2046-1402

DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.22843.2

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