A scoping review of cohort studies assessing traditional Chinese medicine interventions
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(2020) 20:361
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Open Access
A scoping review of cohort studies assessing traditional Chinese medicine interventions Yuting Duan1,2, Zhirui Xu3, Jingjing Deng3, Yanjia Lin4, Yan Zheng3, Juexuan Chen5, Xiaoyu Tang3, Xuan Zhang1,2, Chunzhi Tang3, Jiangxia Miao6 and Zhaoxiang Bian1,2*
Abstract Backgrounds: Identifying topics and assessing the reporting quality of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) cohort studies. Methods: A scoping review of the literature was performed. A descriptive approach to summarize the core study characteristics was prepared, along with structured tables and figures to identify salient points of differences noted across studies. The reporting quality of TCM cohort studies was assessed according to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE)-cohort checklist. Results: A total of 199 TCM cohort studies were included. The largest number of TCM cohort studies was conducted in Mainland China (70.9%). The TCM cohort study was first published in 2003. The top three diseases studied were Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Stroke, and Asthma. As for the intervention methods, Chinese herbal medicine formulas (60.3%), acupuncture (14.1%) and single herbs (12.6%) accounted for the majority, followed by moxibustion (4.0%) and qigong (2.0%). The overage sufficient reporting rate of included TCM cohort studies according to the STROBE-cohort checklist was 42.9%. Comparing with Chinese literature, the reporting rates of English literature in most items were higher. Conclusion: For the application of cohort studies to inform the effects of TCM interventions, the interventions assessed and conditions studied were diverse, the reporting quality was unsatisfied. Keywords: Scoping review, Cohort studies, Traditional Chinese medicine, Reporting quality, Evidence-based medicine
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Clinical Study Center, School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, 3/F, Jockey Club School of Chinese Medicine Building, 7 Baptist University Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, SAR, China 2 Chinese EQUATOR Center, Hong Kong, SAR, China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from th
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