Clinical efficacy of Chinese herbs for supplementing qi and activating blood circulation combined with N-acetylcysteine in the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: A systematic review and network meta-analysis

• Qinglu Pang,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0860-2754

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• Guodong Li,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory, Beijing Changping Hospital of Integrated traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Fang Cao,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Dongfang Hospital Affiliated to Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Haoge Liu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Wan Wei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wan Wei, Yang Jiao

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yangjiao2013@sina.cn (YJ); wanwei71@outlook.com (WW)

  Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Dongfang Hospital Affiliated to Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Yang Jiao

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wan Wei, Yang Jiao

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yangjiao2013@sina.cn (YJ); wanwei71@outlook.com (WW)

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory, Dongfang Hospital Affiliated to Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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