Figure 3.

Forest plot of patient-reported satisfaction and adverse events.

Forest plot of patient-reported satisfaction comparing SBS with conventional medicine. In both Figure 3a and b, the black diamond is to the right of the vertical line of null effect, suggesting that SBS use, regardless of conventional medicine, results in significantly better patient-reported satisfaction than conventional medicine by itself. Figure 3b is the forest plot of patient-reported satisfaction comparing SBS with conventional medicine versus conventional medicine alone. Figure 3c is the forest plot of AEs of SBS versus no SBS. The black diamond is to the left side of the vertical line of null effect suggesting that SBS does not increase the risk of AEs.

Abbreviations: CM, conventional medicine; SBS, Shenling Baizhu San.