Comparative efficacy of Chinese herbal injections for treating severe pneumonia: A protocol for systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Lu Xiao; Liqing Niu; Xuemin Zhang; Xuezheng Liu; Xinqiao Liu; Chongxiang Sun; Xiaokun Yang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0262776

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Comparative efficacy of Chinese herbal injections for treating severe pneumonia: A protocol for systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Lu Xiao ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Xiao, Liqing Niu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Emergency Department, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China, National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China, State Key Laboratory of Multi-fractions Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China
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Liqing Niu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Xiao, Liqing Niu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Emergency Department, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China, National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-178X

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Xuemin Zhang,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Emergency Department, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China, National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China
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Xuezheng Liu,

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Emergency Department, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China, National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China, State Key Laboratory of Multi-fractions Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China
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Xinqiao Liu ,

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: 13821150112@163.com

Affiliations Emergency Department, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China, National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China, State Key Laboratory of Multi-fractions Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China
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Chongxiang Sun,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software

Affiliations Emergency Department, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China, National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China
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Xiaokun Yang

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Emergency Department, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China, National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin City, Tianjin Province, China
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Comparative efficacy of Chinese herbal injections for treating severe pneumonia: A protocol for systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Lu Xiao,
Liqing Niu,
Xuemin Zhang,
Xuezheng Liu,
Xinqiao Liu,
Chongxiang Sun,
Xiaokun Yang

Published: May 23, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262776

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