Increasing the usefulness of acupuncture guideline recommendations

Yu-Qing Zhang; Liming Lu; Nenggui Xu; Xiaorong Tang; Xiaoshuang Shi; Alonso Carrasco-Labra; Holger Schünemann; Yaolong Chen; Jun Xia; Guang Chen; Jianping Liu; Baoyan Liu; Jiyao Wang; Amir Qaseem; Xianghong Jing; Gordon Guyatt; Hong Zhao

doi:10.1136/bmj-2022-070533

Increasing the usefulness of acupuncture guideline recommendations

BMJ. 2022 Feb 25:376:e070533. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2022-070533.

Authors

Yu-Qing Zhang^{1

2

3

4}, Liming Lu⁵, Nenggui Xu⁵, Xiaorong Tang⁵, Xiaoshuang Shi³, Alonso Carrasco-Labra⁶, Holger Schünemann², Yaolong Chen^{7

8}, Jun Xia^{4

9}, Guang Chen¹⁰, Jianping Liu¹¹, Baoyan Liu¹², Jiyao Wang¹³, Amir Qaseem¹⁴, Xianghong Jing³, Gordon Guyatt^{2

15}, Hong Zhao^{16

17}

Affiliations

¹ CEBIM (Center for Evidence Based Integrative Medicine)-Clarity Collaboration, Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
² Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
³ Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
⁴ Nottingham Ningbo GRADE Centre, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.
⁵ South China Research Center for Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Medical College of Acu-Moxi and Rehabilitation, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
⁶ Center for Integrative Global Oral Health, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁷ Institute of Health Data Science, Lanzhou University, China.
⁸ WHO Collaborating Centre for Guideline Implementation and Knowledge Translation, Lanzhou, China].
⁹ Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK.
¹⁰ Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, USA.
¹¹ Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.
¹² China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
¹³ Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
¹⁴ American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
¹⁶ Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China hongzhao2005@aliyun.com.
¹⁷ Shenzhen Luohu District Hospital of TCM, Shenzhen, China.

Abstract

Yu-Qing Zhang and colleagues examine the progress and pitfalls in guideline recommendations for acupuncture and provide suggestions for improvement

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Acupuncture Therapy / methods*
Evidence-Based Medicine*
Guideline Adherence*
Guidelines as Topic*
Humans