Pharmacopuncture for Cancer Care: A Systematic Review

Table 4

ROB assessment for the included studies by symptom: pain, nausea and vomiting, ileus, hiccup, fever, QOL, and gastrointestinal symptoms.

Author	Random sequence generation	Allocation concealment	Blinding of participants	Blinding of outcome assessment	Incomplete outcome data	Selective reporting
Pain
Liu 2010 [16]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Li 2009 [17]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Shen 2009 [18]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Dou et al. 2004 [19]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Wang et al. 2004a [20]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Wang et al. 2004b [21]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Bai 2003 [22]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Guan et al. 2001 [23]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Nausea and vomiting
Liu et al. 2011 [24]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Yang et al. 2011 [25]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
You et al. 2009 [26]	U	Y	N	N	Y	Y
Chen 2007 [27]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Hu 2003 [28]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Tao et al. 2000 [29]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Ileus
Chen et al. 2010 [31]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Feng et al. 2007 [32]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Hiccup
Sui and Zhang 2009 [33]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Xia et al. 2000 [34]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Fever
Yan et al. 1999 [35]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Yan et al. 1997 [36]	U	U	N	N	Y	N
QOL
Xue 2005 [37]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y
Gastrointestinal symptoms
Zhao et al. 2008 [38]	U	U	N	N	Y	Y

ROB was assessed using the ROB assessment tool from the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions [39].
N: no (high risk of bias); QOL: quality of life; ROB: risk of bias; U: Unclear (uncertain risk of bias); Y: yes (low risk of bias).