Quality assessment | No of patients | Effect | Quality | Importance | ||||||||
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No of studies | Design | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Other considerations | Acupuncture | Control | Relative (95% CI) | Absolute | ||
Response rate to acupuncture | ||||||||||||
8 | Randomised trial | Serious | No serious inconsistency | No serious indirectness | No serious imprecision | Reporting bias | 272/292 (93.2%) | 227/293 (77.5%) | RR 1.2 (1.12 to 1.29) | 155 more per 1000 (from 93 more to 225 more) | ⊕⊕ΟΟ LOW | CRITICAL |
Improvement of total scores of gastroparesis symptoms by acupuncture | ||||||||||||
6a | Randomised trial | Serious | No serious inconsistencyb | No serious indirectness | No serious imprecision | Reporting bias | 221 | 221 | - | SMD 0.97 lower (1.27 to 0.68 lower) | ⊕⊕ΟΟ LOW | CRITICAL |
Improvement of solid gastric emptying | ||||||||||||
6c | Randomised trial | Serious | Seriousd | No serious indirectness | No serious imprecision | Reporting bias | 195 | 195 | - | SMD 0.37 lower (0.79 lower to 0.05 higher) | ⊕ΟΟΟ Very LOW | CRITICAL |