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| Therapeutic effect of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine treating upper airway cough syndrome in children: a Meta analysis |
| Hits 1537 Download times 1196 Received:December 05, 2017 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1673-9043.2018.03.11 |
| Key Words
integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine;children;upper airway cough syndrome;meta analysis |
| Author Name | Affiliation | E-mail | | LAN Xiaomin | Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | CHENG Yan | The Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300150, China | chengyan.erke@163.com |
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| Abstract
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| [Objective] To investigate the therapeutic effect of integrated traditional Chinese and Western Medicine treating upper airway cough syndrome in children.[Methods] Retrieve comprehensively in accordance with the requirements of the system evaluation including CNKI, Wanfang database, and CBM etc. Seven literature with 582 cases were included and a meta analysis was conducted.[Results] Publication bias analysis revealed that the total effective inverted funnel plot of the 7 literature was roughly symmetrical with the distribution scope mainly concentrated in the middle and upper part; the markedly effective inverted funnel plot was asymmetrical; both of which suggested that there was a certain publication bias and low methodological quality. Heterogeneity test:the observation group and the control group had clinical and statistical homogeneity and can be analysed with fixed effect model. The result revealed that there was significant difference between the observation group and the control group in the espect of both total effect and marked effect.[Conclusion] According to the present clinical evidence, it was efficacy to treat upper airway cough syndrome in children with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine and the effect was better than simply with western medicine. Integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine therapy may reduce treatment duration of upper airway cough syndrome in children. While it needs rigorous design and to be further identified and supported by large sample random, double blind, controlled trials. |
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