Urgent need to improve the quality of case report in traditional Chinese medicine: Assessment on reporting quality of 3,417 cases

Fu, Sun; Kun, Wai; Zeng, Xiaoxi; Zhang, Li; Cheng, Chung Wah; Song, Lisa; Zhong, Linda LD; Lin, Jia; Wang, Yongyan; Shang, Hongcai; Bian, Zhao-xia

doi:10.1007/s11655-015-2250-y

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“…Moreover, these recommendations suggest that items should include diagnosis by traditional Chinese medicine-based methods, according to symptoms, signs, and the characteristics of the tongue and pulse. According to the survey, 67.4% of case reports included the traditional Chinese medicine terms for diseases, and 88.9% reported syndrome differentiation [23]. These efforts in the CARC recommendations might reflect the perspective that acupuncture treatment is determined not just by diagnosis based on Western medicine, but also by pattern identification based on traditional Chinese medicine.…”

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The Current Status of Quality of Reporting in Acupuncture Treatment Case Reports: An Analysis of the Core Journal in Korea

Kim

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Lee

et al. 2017

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Objectives The present study aimed to evaluate the overall quality of case reports concerning acupuncture treatment in Korea. Methods We selected a representative Korean journal and retrieved eligible case reports on acupuncture treatment published from 2009 to 2015. We assessed the quality of reporting based on CAse REport (CARE) and STandards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA) guideline checklists. Results A total of 93 eligible case reports of acupuncture treatment were identified among the 107 articles screened. Overall quality of reporting in the case reports was generally acceptable (75.4% on CARE, 67.7% on STRICTA), but several crucial items remained substantially underreported. Conclusions Endorsement of the CARE and STRICTA guidelines is needed to improve the completeness of reporting. Our findings will be helpful in developing a more appropriate reporting guideline for case reports in acupuncture treatment.

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The Current Status of Quality of Reporting in Acupuncture Treatment Case Reports: An Analysis of the Core Journal in Korea

Kim

Eom

Lee

et al. 2017

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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“…Nowadays, acupuncture refers to a family of procedures involving physical or chemical stimulation at acupoints using a variety of techniques. In this overview, we will deal with manual acupuncture (insertion of needles into the cutis/ subcutis and moving/twisting them in regular intervals), electroacupuncture (EAP; stimulation of these needles by different frequencies of electrical current), and moxibustion (burning of cone-shaped preparations of moxa, made of dried mugworth above the acupoints) [3].…”

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Purinergic signaling as a basis of acupuncture-induced analgesia

Tang

et al. 2020

Purinergic Signalling

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This review summarizes experimental evidence indicating that purinergic mechanisms are causally involved in acupuncture (AP)-induced analgesia. Electroacupuncture (EAP) and manual AP release at pain-relevant acupoints ATP which may activate purinergic P2X receptors (Rs) especially of the P2X3 type situated at local sensory nerve endings (peripheral terminals of dorsal root ganglion [DRG] neurons); the central processes of these neurons are thought to inhibit via collaterals of ascending dorsal horn spinal cord neurons, pain-relevant pathways projecting to higher centers of the brain. In addition, during AP/EAP non-neuronal P2X4 and/or P2X7Rs localized at microglial cells of the CNS become activated at the spinal or supraspinal levels. In consequence, these microglia secrete bioactive compounds such as growth factors, cytokines, chemokines, reactive oxygen, and nitrogen species, which modulate the ascending neuronal pathways conducting painful stimuli. Alternatively, ATP released at acupoints by AP/EAP may be enzymatically degraded to adenosine, stimulating in loco presynaptic A1Rs exerting an inhibitory influence on the primary afferent fibers (the above mentioned pain-sensing peripheral terminals of DRG neurons) which thereby fail to conduct action potentials to the spinal cord dorsal horn. The net effect of the stimulation of P2X3, P2X4, P2X7, and A1Rs by the AP/EAP-induced release of ATP/adenosine at certain acupoints will be analgesia.

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“…Moxibustion means the burning of a cone-shaped preparation of moxa (made of dried mugwort) on or near the skin, often but not always near to an acupoint (Fig. 1A,B; Fu and others 2016). Cupping therapy is an ancient Chinese form of alternative medicine in which a local suction is created on the skin (Fig.…”

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Acupuncture-Induced Analgesia

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Chronic pain is a debilitating and rather common health problem. The present shortage in analgesic drugs with a favorable spectrum but without remarkable side effects furthered the search for alternative therapeutic manipulations. Increasing evidence from both basic and clinical research on acupuncture, a main alternative therapy of traditional Chinese medicine, suggests that chronic pain is sensitive to acupuncture procedures. Clarification of the underlying mechanisms is a challenge of great theoretical and practical significance. The seminal hypothesis of Geoffrey Burnstock and the astounding findings of Maiken Nedergaard on the involvement of purinergic signaling in the beneficial effects of acupuncture fertilized the field and led to an intensification of research on acupurines. In this review, we will summarize the state-of-the-art situation and try to forecast how the field is likely to develop in the future.

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Urgent need to improve the quality of case report in traditional Chinese medicine: Assessment on reporting quality of 3,417 cases

Abstract: Systematic reporting recommendations are urged to develop for improving the contents and format of case reports in TCM.

Cited by 5 publications

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The Current Status of Quality of Reporting in Acupuncture Treatment Case Reports: An Analysis of the Core Journal in Korea

The Current Status of Quality of Reporting in Acupuncture Treatment Case Reports: An Analysis of the Core Journal in Korea

Purinergic signaling as a basis of acupuncture-induced analgesia

Acupuncture-Induced Analgesia

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