Open Access<p>Evaluating the Characteristics, Reporting and Methodological Quality of Systematic Reviews of Acupuncture for Low Back Pain by Using the Veritas Plot</p>
Author(s) -
Huimin Fan,
Qiu M,
Siyi Zhao,
Dongdong Lin,
YanPeng Xu,
Yong Yang,
Liming Lu,
Rusong Guo,
Qiang Tian,
Zhiyong Fan,
Shengxian Wu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of pain research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.888
H-Index - 49
ISSN - 1178-7090
DOI - 10.2147/jpr.s254234
Subject(s) - medicine , systematic review , publication bias , quality score , grading (engineering) , meta analysis , quality assessment , medical physics , medline , pathology , operations management , metric (unit) , civil engineering , external quality assessment , political science , law , economics , engineering
To evaluate systematic reviews (SRs) of acupuncture for low back pain (LBP) in terms of characteristics, reporting and methodological quality using a Veritas plot and to explore factors that may be associated with methodological quality and reporting quality.