Research Article

Investigating Prescriptions and Mechanisms of Acupuncture for Chronic Stable Angina Pectoris: An Association Rule Mining and Network Analysis Study

Table 1

Risk of bias of the included studies.

StudyRandom sequence generationAllocation concealmentBlindingIncomplete outcome dataSelective reportingOther bias
Patient/doctor blindingOutcome assessor blinding

Ballegaard et al. [26]UncertainUncertainLow riskLow riskUncertainUncertainUncertain
Chang [27]UncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Deng et al. [28]UncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Diao et al. [29]UncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Fan et al. [30]Central randomizationLow riskUncertainLow riskLow riskUncertainUncertain
He et al. [31]UncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Jie et al. [32]Clinical record numberHigh riskUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Huang et al. [14]Random number tableUncertainUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Dan et al. [33]UncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainUncertain
Li and Li [34]Random number tableUncertainUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Li et al. [35]Random number tableUncertainUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Lin et al. [36]UncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Liu et al. [12]UncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Liu and Zhang [37]Random number tableHigh riskUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Ma et al. [38]UncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Jiang et al. [39]Clinical record numberHigh riskLow riskUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Youfa and Chen [40]UncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Rlchter Jhaah et al. [41]UncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainUncertain
Wang et al. [42]Random number tableHigh riskUncertainLow riskLow riskUncertainUncertain
Shen et al. [43]Random numberUncertainUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Pingchang and Shizhao [44]Random number tableHigh riskUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Yang [45]UncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainUncertain
Yang et al. [46]Random numberLow riskUncertainLow riskLow riskUncertainUncertain
Zhang [47]UncertainUncertainUncertainUncertainLow riskUncertainUncertain
Zhang et al. [16]Random numberHigh riskUncertainLow riskLow riskUncertainUncertain
Zhang et al. [48]Random numberHigh riskUncertainLow riskLow riskUncertainUncertain
Zhao et al. [13]Central randomizationLow riskLow riskLow riskLow riskHigh riskHigh risk