Data Sheet 2_Traditional Chinese Medicine for preventing influenza: a systematic review an

A systematic review and meta-analysis of 19 clinical studies involving 55,183 healthy participants, assessing the effectiveness and safety of Traditional Chinese Medicine for preventing influenza. The dataset was compiled by Haowen Huang and published on figshare in April 2026. It includes results from studies on pregnant women, children, school populations, community residents, and military residents.

Use Cases

• Assessing the relative risk reduction of influenza incidence based on meta-analysis results.
• Evaluating the safety profile of TCM interventions based on adverse event rate comparisons.
• Analyzing methodological quality and evidence certainty for clinical studies on influenza prevention.
• Identifying research gaps for future studies on TCM, as suggested by the review's conclusion.

Strengths

• Includes data from 19 studies with a total of 55,183 participants.
• Reports specific statistical outcomes, including risk ratios and confidence intervals for influenza and influenza-like illness incidence.
• Follows a systematic review protocol registered with PROSPERO (CRD42024506941).

Limitations

• The dataset is a 177.6 KB PDF document; the underlying structured data (e.g., columns, rows) is not directly accessible.
• The review's conclusion notes the confidence in findings is limited by the methodological limitations of the included studies.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the PDF report.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Haowen Huang.

Collection Method

Systematic review and meta-analysis of studies from PubMed, EMbase, CENTRAL, Web of Science, CNKI, WanFang, CQVIP, and Sinomed up to August 14, 2025.

Time Range

Studies included up to August 14, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 05:28:27.