CENTRAL (2014, Issue 4)	MEDLINE (OVID)	Embase (OVID)
(hip) AND (osteoarthritis OR pain OR arthritis OR arthralgia OR osteoarthrosis OR gonarthrosis) AND (acupunctur* OR electroacupuncture OR electro‐acupuncture OR acupoints OR "percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation" OR auriculoacupuncture) Search date: March 18, 2018 Results: 45	1 Acupuncture/ or acupuncture.mp. 2 acupuncture therapy.mp. or exp Acupuncture Therapy/ 3 auriculotherapy.mp. [mp=title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, protocol supplementary concept, rare disease supplementary concept, unique identifier] 4 electroacupuncture.mp. or Electroacupuncture/ 5 moxibustion.mp. or Moxibustion/ 6 oriental traditional medicine.mp. or Medicine, East Asian Traditional/ 7 chinese traditional medicine.mp. or Medicine, Chinese Traditional/ 8 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 9 arthritis.mp. [mp=title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, protocol supplementary concept, rare disease supplementary concept, unique identifier] 10 exp Osteoarthritis/ 11 Arthritis/ 12 osteoarthritis.mp. [mp=title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, protocol supplementary concept, rare disease supplementary concept, unique identifier] 13 Joint Diseases/ 14 Arthralgia/ 15 (joint pain or chronic joint symptoms or gonarthrosis or osteoarthrosis or astoarthrosis or degeneretive arthritis or joint diseases or arthralgia).mp. [mp=title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, protocol supplementary concept, rare disease supplementary concept, unique identifier] 16 hip osteoarthritis.mp. or Osteoarthritis, Hip/ 17 hip pain.mp. [mp=title, abstract, original title, name of substance word, subject heading word, protocol supplementary concept, rare disease supplementary concept, unique identifier] 18 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 or 16 or 17 19 clinical trial.pt. 20 randomized.ab. or randomized controlled trial.pt. or controlled clinical trial.pt. 21 placebo.ab. 22 exp Clinical Trial/ 23 randomly.ab. 24 trial.ti. 25 19 or 20 or 21 or 22 or 23 or 24 26 Animals/ 27 Humans/ 28 26 not (26 and 27) 29 25 not 28 30 8 and 18 and 29 31 limit 30 to yr="2007 ‐Current" Search date: March 18, 2018 Results: 336	1.'acupuncture'/exp OR acupuncture 2.'auriculotherapy'/exp OR auriculotherapy 3.'electroacupuncture'/exp OR electroacupuncture 4.'moxibustion'/exp OR moxibustion 5.east AND ('asian'/exp OR asian) AND traditional AND ('medicine'/exp OR medicine) 6.'chinese'/exp OR chinese AND traditional AND ('medicine'/exp OR medicine) 7.1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 8.'arthritis'/exp OR arthritis 9.'osteoarthritis'/exp OR osteoarthritis 10.'joint diseases'/exp OR 'joint diseases' 11.'arthropathy'/exp OR arthropathy 12.'arthralgia'/exp OR arthralgia 13.'joint pain'/exp OR 'joint pain' OR 'chronic joint symptoms' OR 'gonarthrosis'/exp OR 'gonarthrosis' OR 'osteoarthrosis'/exp OR 'osteoarthrosis' OR 'astoarthrosis' OR 'degenerative arthritis'/exp OR 'degenerative arthritis' OR 'joint diseases'/exp OR 'joint diseases' OR 'arthralgia'/exp OR 'arthralgia' 14.'hip osteoarthritis'/exp OR 'hip osteoarthritis' 15.'hip pain'/exp OR 'hip pain' 16.8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 17.'clinical trial'/exp OR 'clinical trial' 18.clinical trial: ti 19.random*:ab 20.'controlled clinical trial'/exp OR 'controlled clinical trial' OR 'controlled clinical trial':ti OR 'controlled clinical trial':ab 21.'randomized controlled trial' OR 'randomized controlled trial':ti OR 'randomized controlled trial':ab 22.placebo:ab 23.trial:ti 24.17 or 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 or 22 or 23 25.'animal'/exp OR animal 26.'human'/exp OR human 27.25 not (25 and 26) 28.24 not 27 29.7 and 16 and 28 30.29 (2007:py or 2008:py or 2009:py or 2010:py or 2011:py or 2012:py or 2013:py or 2014:py or 2015:py) Search date: March 18, 2018 Results: 1077