Evidence Map for Acupuncture and Moxibustion RCTs in Dry Eye Disease

Qidi Liu's evidence map integrates 319 randomized controlled trials on acupuncture and moxibustion for dry eye disease, published up to December 1, 2025. The map presents study characteristics, interventions, outcome indicators, and quality assessments using the RoB 2.0 tool. The dataset was last updated on April 21, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of Traditional Chinese Medicine syndrome types in clinical trials based on the six identified types, such as liver-kidney yin deficiency.
• Compare the frequency of different intervention types based on the 17 monotherapies and 31 combination therapies identified.
• Evaluate the methodological quality of existing research based on the Risk of Bias 2.0 assessments described in the results.
• Identify commonly used outcome measures for dry eye disease based on the 13 categories, such as ocular surface health assessment indicators.

Strengths

• Includes 319 randomized controlled trials, providing a substantial evidence base.
• Categorizes interventions into 17 monotherapy and 31 combination therapy types, offering detailed intervention mapping.
• Classifies outcome indicators into 13 categories, including ocular surface health and TCM symptom scores.

Limitations

• The methodological quality of the included literature is described as generally low.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific analytical tasks.

Provenance

Source

Studies retrieved from CNKI, VIP Database, WanFang Data, CBM, PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and the Cochrane Library.

Collection Method

Systematic evidence mapping of randomized controlled trials.

Time Range

Database inception to December 1, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-21 04:22:40; freshness should be verified.