Evaluation of the efficacy and safety of the use of acupuncture for the adjuvant treatment of patients with post-stroke
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Evaluation of the efficacy and safety of the use of acupuncture for the adjuvant treatment of patients with post-stroke cognitive impairment: protocol for a randomized controlled trial Ruijia Liu1,2†, Xudong Yu1,3†, Jisheng Wang1,3†, Ye Liu1,4, Bowen Liu1,3, Xinwei Li1,4, Yue Wang1,2, Tianyu Cao1,3 and Hongwei Yuan4*
Abstract Background: Post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) is a series of syndromes that meet the diagnostic criteria for cognitive impairment that appear after a stroke. The treatment of PSCI with oral drugs alone is not ideal and has obvious side effects. Therefore, complementary and alternative treatments are needed for patients with insufficient or significant side effects of oral medications. Therefore, we will evaluate the clinical effectiveness and safety of acupuncture in the treatment of PSCI. Methods/design: In this study, patients will be randomly divided into two groups. Intervention group: acupuncture combined with oral medication. Control group: Western medicine treatment plan. All participants will continue to receive conventional drug treatment. The selection of outcomes will be evaluated by Mini Mental State Examination Scale (MMSE) at week 12. The scale will be conducted by two well-trained reviewers who will conduct joint MMSE inspections on participants. The test time will be selected 3 days before treatment and once 4 weeks after treatment. After the MMSE test, the two raters scored independently, and the average of the two was used as the final score. Discussion: This trial may provide evidence regarding the clinical effectiveness, safety, and cost-effectiveness of acupuncture for patients with PSCI. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov ChiCTR2000029926. Registered on 17 February 2020 http://www.chictr.org.cn/ showproj.aspx?proj=49356
* Correspondence: [email protected] † Ruijia Liu, Xudong Yu and Jisheng Wang contributed equally to this work. 4 The Department of Acupuncture, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijng 100700, 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 the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://crea
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