Acupuncture techniques for COPD: a systematic review

Fernández-Jané, Carles; Vilaró, Jordi; Fei, Yutong; Wang, Congcong; Liu, Jianping; Huang, Na; Xia, Ruyu; Tian, Xia; Hu, Ruixue; Wen, Lingzi; Yu, Mingkun; Gómara-Toldrà, Natàlia; Solà-Madurell, Mireia; Sitjà-Rabert, Mercè

doi:10.1186/s12906-020-02899-3

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies

Table 2 Detailed risk of bias of each trial

From: Acupuncture techniques for COPD: a systematic review

	Random sequence generation	Allocation concealment	Blinding of participants	Blinding of outcome assessment	Incomplete outcome data	Selective outcome reporting	Other sources of bias
AcuTENS
Lau, 2008 [9]	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low	Unclear	Low
Liu X, 2015 [10]	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low	Unclear	Low
Ngai, 2010 [11]	Low	Unclear	Low	Low	Low	Unclear	Low
Jones, 2011 [12]	Low	Unclear	Low	Low	Unclear	High	Unclear
Öncü, 2017 [13]	Low	Unclear	Low	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear
Shou, 2014 [14]	Low	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Unclear	Unclear
Wen Q 2011 [15]	Low	Unclear	Low	Unclear	Low	Unclear	Unclear
Moxibustion
Bai 2018 [26]	Unclear	Unclear	High	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear
Cheng AP, 2011 [23]	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Unclear
Cui XX, 2015 [22]	Low	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Unclear
Guang, 2017 [25]	Low	Unclear	High	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear
He F, 2013 [21]	Unclear	Unclear	High	High	Unclear	Low	Low
Liang, 2018 [27]	Low	Unclear	High	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear
Liu SR, 2015 [20]	Low	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Unclear
Tang J 2012 [19]	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Unclear
Wang WH, 2016 [18]	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Unclear	Unclear
Wen X, 2013 [8]	Low	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Unclear
Yang XQ, 2016 [17]	Low	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Unclear
Zhang QY, 2016 [16]	Low	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Unclear
Zhe, 2017 [24]	Low	Unclear	High	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear
Acupressure
Guo 2017 [32]	Low	Unclear	High	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear
Huang 2018 [33]	Low	Unclear	High	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear
Maa, 1997 [30]	Low	Unclear	Low	Unclear	Low	Unclear	Low
Tsay, 2005 [28]	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Low	Low	Unclear	Unclear
Wu, 2004 [31], 2007 [29]	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear
Wu, 2017 [34]	Low	Unclear	High	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear
Xu 2018 [35]	Unclear	Unclear	High	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear
Ear acupuncture
Cao L, 2012 [36]	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low	Unclear	Unclear
Hu ZH, 1997 [41]	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Unclear	Unclear
Jin RF, 2009 [37]	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Low	Unclear
Li, 2017 [40]	Unclear	Unclear	High	Unclear	Low	Unclear	Unclear
Pang CL, 2014 [39]	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Low	Unclear	Unclear
Pang CL, 2016 [38]	Unclear	Unclear	High	Unclear	Low	Low	Unclear
Acupressure plus ear acupuncture
Rao, 2017 [42]	Low	Unclear	High	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear	Unclear
Cupping
Xiao W, 2009 [43]	Unclear	Unclear	High	Unclear	Low	Unclear	Unclear

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