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. 2019 Jan;98(1):e13934.
doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000013934.

The safety and efficacy of acupuncture for epididymitis protocol for a systematic review

Jisheng Wang  1   2 , Liang Han  3 , Binghao Bao  1   2 , Xudong Yu  1   2 , Kaige Zhang  1   4 , Hengheng Dai  1   2 , Xiao Li  1   2 , Bin Wang  2 , Haisong Li  2
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The safety and efficacy of acupuncture for epididymitis protocol for a systematic review

Jisheng Wang et al. Medicine (Baltimore). 2019 Jan.

Abstract

Background: Epididymitis is a common disease in non-specific infections of the male reproductive system. According to the clinical incidence of acute epididymitis and chronic epididymitis, which is more common in chronic epididymitis. There are many clinical trials confirmed that acupuncture treatment can relieve pain and improve symptoms of epididymitis to some extent. In this systematic review, we aim to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for epididymitis.

Methods and analysis: We will search for PubMed, Cochrane Library, AMED, EMbase, WorldSciNet; Nature, Science online and China Journal Full-text Database (CNKI), China Biomedical Literature CD-ROM Database (CBM), and related randomized controlled trials included in the China Resources Database. The time is limited from the construction of the library to November 2018. We will use the criteria provided by Cochrane 5.1.0 for quality assessment and risk assessment of the included studies, and use the Revman 5.3 and Stata13.0 software for meta-analysis of the effectiveness, recurrence rate, and symptom scores of epididymitis.

Ethics and dissemination: This systematic review will evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture for epididymitis. Because all of the data used in this systematic review and meta-analysis has been published, this review does not require ethical approval. Furthermore, all data will be analyzed anonymously during the review process trial.

Registration number: PROSPERO CRD42018111348.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest in this work.

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