Combination of Acupoints in Treating Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: An Apriori Algorithm-Based Association Rule Analysis

Table 1

Summary of the retrieved studies.

Author	Year	Study design	Diagnosis	Acupoints	Overall bias (Rob 2.0)
Jia	2004	RCT	COPD stage II or III	BL13, BL43, LU9, KI3, BL23, ST36, LU7, LU5, CV17, EXB1	High
Deering et al.	2011	RCT	COPD	LI11, LI10, TE10, TE6, L5, L7	High
Fan et al.	2011	RCT	COPD	EXB1, BL13, BL12, BL43, BL15, CV17, CV22, BL20, BL23, ST36	Some
Gao et al.	2011	RCT	COPD	EXB1, BL13, ST36, BL12, GV14, BL43, BL15, CV17, CV22, BL20, BL23	High
Xie et al.	2014	RCT	COPD	ST36, BL13, EXB1, BL43, BL15, GV14, BL12	Some
Yu	2014	RCT	COPD stage II or III	BL13, BL12, CV17, EXB1, BL43, BL23, ST36, LU7, LU5, ST40, SP10	High
Lee et al.	2015	RCT	COPD	GV14, BL13, BL20, BL23, BL17	Low
Liu et al.	2015	RCT	COPD stage III or IV	BL13, BL23, CV6, CV4, EXB1, CV17, ST36	High
Yang et al.	2016	RCT	COPD	GV14, BL13, BL20, BL23, BL17	Low
Chu	2017	RCT	COPD	ST36, BL23, BL43, EXB1, CV17, BL12, BL13, SP10, ST40, LU5, LU7	High
Lee	2017	RCT	COPD	BL13, BL12, CV17, EXB1, BL43, BL23, ST36, LU5, ST40, SP10	Some
Shi et al.	2017	RCT	COPD	CV17, CV12, CV6, GV20, LI6, LU7, LU9, ST36	High

RCT: randomized control trial; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Rob 2.0: RoB 2.0 tool (revised tool for risk of bias in randomized trials).