Open AccessEffect of Chinese herbal topical medicine, acupuncture, and moxibustion on pressure ulcer wound healing: A meta‐analysis
Author(s) -
Wang Feida,
Chen Mingxu,
Du Jia
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international wound journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.867
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1742-481X
pISSN - 1742-4801
DOI - 10.1111/iwj.13803
Subject(s) - medicine , moxibustion , acupuncture , traditional chinese medicine , wound healing , odds ratio , meta analysis , confidence interval , traditional medicine , surgery , alternative medicine , pathology
We performed a meta‐analysis to evaluate the effect of Chinese herbal topical medicine, acupuncture, and moxibustion on pressure ulcer wound healing. A systematic literature search up to January 2022 was done and 13 studies included 1073 subjects with pressure ulcer wound at the start of the study; 593 of them were using traditional Chinese medicine treatments, and 480 were control for pressure ulcer wound. We calculated the odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) to evaluate the effect of Chinese herbal topical medicine, acupuncture, and moxibustion on pressure ulcer wound healing by the dichotomous methods with a random or fixed‐influence model. Traditional Chinese medicine treatments had significantly higher complete healing (OR, 5.94; 95% CI, 3.94–8.95, P < .001), and curative ratio post‐treatment (OR, 4.79; 95% CI, 2.62–8.76, P < .001) compared with control for subjects with pressure ulcer wound. Traditional Chinese medicine treatments had a significantly higher complete healing and curative ratio post‐treatment compared with control for subjects with pressure ulcer wounds. Further studies are needed to validate these findings.