Table 2_Adjunctive acupuncture for sepsis-associated acute gastrointestinal injury: a syst

Xuemin Zhang's 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis aggregates evidence from 20 studies published between 2013 and 2025, involving 1,502 patients. The work compares adjunctive acupuncture to standard care for sepsis-associated acute gastrointestinal injury. It includes an exploratory Bayesian network meta-analysis to compare electroacupuncture and manual acupuncture.

Use Cases

• Comparing treatment efficacy for gastrointestinal function based on reported outcomes like intra-abdominal pressure and bowel sounds.
• Analyzing inflammatory biomarker responses based on reported procalcitonin, C-reactive protein, and white blood cell count data.
• Assessing mortality outcomes based on the reported 28-day mortality data from included studies.
• Comparing intervention modalities based on the exploratory network meta-analysis of electroacupuncture versus manual acupuncture.

Strengths

• Follows PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
• Includes 20 studies with a total of 1,502 patient records.
• Risk of bias was assessed using Cochrane RoB 2 and ROBINS-I V2 tools.
• Conducted sensitivity analyses, including a leave-one-out analysis.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 23.2 KB DOCX document, which is a summary report rather than raw study data.
• Row count and column-level documentation for underlying data are unknown.
• The authors note substantial heterogeneity for some inflammatory biomarkers and methodological limitations in the included studies.

Provenance

Source

Xuemin Zhang, published on figshare.

Collection Method

Systematic review, meta-analysis, and exploratory Bayesian network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials and observational studies.

Time Range

Studies published between 2013 and 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 06:11:03.