The Immediate Analgesic Effect of Acupuncture for Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 3

Sensitivity analysis of included studies.

Study, year	Statistics with study removed
	Difference in means	Lower limit	Upper limit	-value	value
Acupuncture versus sham acupuncture
Inoue et al. 2006				2.13	0.03	86%
Maeda et al. 2013				2.31	0.02	87%
Nabeta and Kawakita 2002				2.48	0.01	87%
Su et al. 2010				2.06	0.04	84%
Liu et al. 2014				2.10	0.04	87%
Lu et al. 2010				2.17	0.03	87%
Stival et al. 2014				2.14	0.03	86%
Yang et al. 2012				2.09	0.04	85%
Zhang et al. 2015				4.17	<0.0001	68%
Acupuncture versus analgesic injection
Chen and Li 2012				4.14	<0.0001	51%
Inoue et al. 2009				3.00	0.003	79%
Shin et al. 2013				4.12	<0.0001	0%