In the article titled “Efficacy Comparison of Five Different Acupuncture Methods on Pain, Stiffness, and Function in Osteoarthritis of the Knee: A Network Meta-Analysis” [1], there were missing inclusion criteria in the “2. Materials and Methods” of Page 2, where “Interventions were compared between common manual acupuncture, electro-acupuncture, fire needle, warm needle, placebo, sham needle, or education” should be corrected to “Interventions included common manual acupuncture, electro-acupuncture, fire needle, or warm needle. Comparators were any of the above described interventions compared with each other, or placebo, waiting list control (including no intervention), sham needle, or education. There was no language restriction in search strategy.” Additionally, there were errors in the typesetting and description in Table 1. The corrected table is shown below.
Supplementary Materials
The relevant corrected values which were re-estimated in the study.
Table 1.
Characteristics of the included studies.
| Author, Year | Location | Sample size/Gender | Mean Age | Interventions | Follow up | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T(M/F) | C(M/F) | T | C | T | Sessions/Duration | C | Measurement Time Points | |||
| (n/ws) | ||||||||||
| (ws) | ||||||||||
| Berman 2004[26] | USA | 190(70/120) | 189(62/127) | 65.2±8.4 | 65.1±8.8 | EA | 23/26 | EDU | 4/8/14/26 | - |
| 191(73/118) | 66.2±8.7 | SN | ||||||||
| Berman 1999[27] | USA | 36(18/18) | 37(26/11) | 65.7±7.95 | 65.5±9.13 | EA | 16/8 | WL | 4/8/12 | 4ws |
| Zhou 2017[18] | China | 56(23/33) | 54(25/29) | 65±6 | 63±6 | FN | 12/4 | EA | 4/8 | 4ws |
| Hinman 2014[28] | Australia | 70(38/32) | 71(31/40) | 64.3±8.6 | 62.7 ± 8.7 | MA | 8,12/12 | WL | 12/50 | 12ms |
| Lu 2014[17] | China | 30(16/14) | 30(18/12) | 58.93±9.26 | 59.10±7.85 | EA | 24/8 | WN | 8 | NA |
| Manheimer 2006[29] | USA | 190(70/120) | 189(62/127) | 65.2±8.4 | 65.1±8.8 | EA | 23/26 | EDU | 4/8/14/26 | - |
| 191(73/118) | 66.2±8.7 | |||||||||
| SN | ||||||||||
| Sangdee 2002[9] | Thailand | 48(10/38) | 47(12/35) | 65.10±3.4 | 61.84±8.95 | EA | 12/4 | SN | 4 | NA |
| Zhang 2013[16] | China | 33(13/20) | 34(14/20) | 57±8 | 58±9 | FN | 12/4 | WN | 4 | NA |
| Scharf 2006[10] | Germany | 326(106/220) | 365(110/255) | 62.8±9.9 | 63.0±10.1 | MA | 10/6 | SN | 13/26 | 20ws |
| Takeda 1994[11] | Canada | 20(10/10) | 20(10/10) | 63.0±8.78 | 60.2±9.75 | MA | 9/3 | SN | 3/7 | 4ws |
| Vas 2004[12] | Spain | 48(11/37) | 49(5/44) | 65.7±11.0 | 68.4±9.1 | EA | 12/12 | SN | 13 | 7ds |
| Fan 2016[30] | China | 54(21/33) | 54(24/30) | 58 ± 6.2 | 56 ± 8.4 | FN | 8/4 | WN | 1/4 | - |
| Wang 2017[13] | China | 25(8/17) | 21(2/19) | 61±6 | 58±7 | WN | 12/3 | WL | 3 | NA |
| Chen 2013[14] | USA | 104(51/53) | 109(52/57) | 60.5±11.1 | 60.4±11.7 | MA | 12/⩽12 | SN | 12/26 | 14ws |
| Jubb 2008[31] | UK | 34(29/5) | 34(26/8) | 64.1±1.6 | 66.1±1.9 | EA | 10/5 | SN | 5/9 | 4ws |
| Gao 2012[15] | China | 34(13/21) | 35(15/20) | 57.7±8.7 | 58.6±8.9 | EA | 24/8 | WN | 4/8 | NA |
M: male; F: female; T: treatment group; C: control group; NA: not available; EA: electroacupuncture; SN: sham needle; MA: manual acupuncture; WN: warm needle; FN: fire needle; WL: waiting list; EDU: education; n: number; ws: weeks; ms: months; ds: days.
References
- 1.Li S., Xie P., Liang Z., et al. Efficacy comparison of five different acupuncture methods on pain, stiffness, and function in osteoarthritis of the knee: a network meta-analysis. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2018;2018:1–19. doi: 10.1155/2018/1638904.1638904 [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
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The relevant corrected values which were re-estimated in the study.