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Meta-Analysis
. 2022 Dec;19(8):2031-2038.
doi: 10.1111/iwj.13803. Epub 2022 Apr 9.

Effect of Chinese herbal topical medicine, acupuncture, and moxibustion on pressure ulcer wound healing: A meta-analysis

Feida Wang  1 , Mingxu Chen  2 , Jia Du  3
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Meta-Analysis

Effect of Chinese herbal topical medicine, acupuncture, and moxibustion on pressure ulcer wound healing: A meta-analysis

Feida Wang et al. Int Wound J. 2022 Dec.

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Abstract

We performed a meta-analysis to evaluate the effect of Chinese herbal topical medicine, acupuncture, and moxibustion on pressure ulcer wound healing. A systematic literature search up to January 2022 was done and 13 studies included 1073 subjects with pressure ulcer wound at the start of the study; 593 of them were using traditional Chinese medicine treatments, and 480 were control for pressure ulcer wound. We calculated the odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) to evaluate the effect of Chinese herbal topical medicine, acupuncture, and moxibustion on pressure ulcer wound healing by the dichotomous methods with a random or fixed-influence model. Traditional Chinese medicine treatments had significantly higher complete healing (OR, 5.94; 95% CI, 3.94-8.95, P < .001), and curative ratio post-treatment (OR, 4.79; 95% CI, 2.62-8.76, P < .001) compared with control for subjects with pressure ulcer wound. Traditional Chinese medicine treatments had a significantly higher complete healing and curative ratio post-treatment compared with control for subjects with pressure ulcer wounds. Further studies are needed to validate these findings.

Keywords: Chinese herbal topical medicine; acupuncture; complete healing; curative ratio post-treatment; moxibustion.

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Schematic illustration of the study method
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A forest plot of the complete healing of the traditional Chinese medicine treatments compared with the control for subjects with pressure ulcer wounds
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A forest plot of the curative ratio post‐treatment of the traditional Chinese medicine treatments compared with the control for subjects with pressure ulcer wounds
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