(c) Acupuncture on and around the day of ET versus control (sham, placebo, no acupuncture)
| Study | Outcomes | Number of participants(studies) | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Publication bias | Relative effect (95% CI) | Quality of the evidence (GRADE) |
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| Cheong YC 2013 | LBR | 2505(8 RCTs) | serious | serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | OR 1.22(0.87,1.70) | LOW |
| OPR | 2807(10 RCTs) | serious | serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | OR 1.10(0.80,1.52) | LOW | |
| CPR | 3632(14 RCTs) | serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | serious | OR 1.11(0.87,1.42) | LOW | |
| MR | 616(6 RCTs) | serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | serious | OR 1.10(0.73,1.67) | LOW | |
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| Zheng CH 2012 | LBP | 1647(4 RCTs) | serious | serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | OR 0.87(0.70,1.07) | LOW |
| CPR | 4418(14 RCTs) | serious | serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | OR 1.12(0.89,1.42) | LOW | |
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| Tarek ET 2009 | CPR | 1993(9 RCTs) | serious | very serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | RR 1.16(0.92,1.48) | VERY LOW |
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| Shen CJ 2015 | CPR | 859(4 RCTs) | serious | very serious | not serious | not serious | serious | RR 1.39(0.90,2.13) | VERY LOW |
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| Qian Y 2017 | CPR | 4513(16 RCTs) | serious | serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | OR 1.19(0.95,1.50) | LOW |
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| FU SJ 2016 | LBR | 1756(7 RCTs) | serious | very serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | RR 1.06(0.79,1.42) | VERY LOW |
| CPR | 2668(10 RCTs) | serious | very serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | RR 1.07(0.86,1.33) | VERY LOW | |
| OPR | 1729(5 RCTs) | serious | serious | not serious | not serious | serious | RR 1.05(0.69,1.69) | VERY LOW | |
| MR | 772(6 RCTs) | serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | serious | RR 1.15(0.83,1.59) | LOW | |