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. 2019 Jun;98(24):e15975.
doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000015975.

Traditional Chinese medicine on treating epididymitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Yi Lei  1 , Jie Yang  2 , Yongqiang Li  1 , Xudong Yu  3 , Sheng Deng  3 , Chaohui Xue  1 , Wei Zheng  1 , Jianwei Shang  3 , Yahui Xue  1
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Traditional Chinese medicine on treating epididymitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Yi Lei et al. Medicine (Baltimore). 2019 Jun.

Abstract

Background: Epididymitis is a common disease in nonspecific infections of the male reproductive system according to the clinical incidence of acute epididymitis and chronic epididymitis. Many clinical trials have proven that Chinese medicine has a significant effect in the treatment of epididymitis. In this systematic review, we aim to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for epididymitis.

Methods: We will search for PubMed, Cochrane Library, AMED, Embase, WorldSciNet, Nature, Science online, 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 TCM for treating 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.Registration number: PROSPERO CRD42019130569.

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The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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