Acupuncture treatment in gastrointestinal diseases: a systematic review

Authors
Category Structured summary of systematic reviews
JournalDatabase of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
Year 2009
CRD SUMMARY: This review evaluated the effectiveness of acupuncture in gastrointestinal diseases and concluded that improved quality of life in irritable bowel syndrome may be explained by unspecific effects of acupuncture. Similar effects in inflammatory bowel disease may be found in clinical scores. Given methodological limitations of the review and the relatively small amount of poor-quality evidence, the conclusions appear overly optimistic.
Epistemonikos ID: 4d3f9a7ec3d6a255aa1270b1adde9632b2ea6962
First added on: Dec 19, 2011