Effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for postoperative ileus following gastrointestinal surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Zi Ye ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zi Ye, Xuqiang Wei

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Acupuncture Anesthesia Clinical Research Institute, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Xuqiang Wei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zi Ye, Xuqiang Wei

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Acupuncture Anesthesia Clinical Research Institute, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Shouquan Feng,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Qunhao Gu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Jing Li,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Acupuncture, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Le Kuai,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Yue Luo,

  Roles Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Ziqi Xi,

  Roles Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Acupuncture Anesthesia Clinical Research Institute, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Ke Wang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wangke8430@163.com (KW); pdzhoujia@163.com (JZ)

  Affiliation Acupuncture Anesthesia Clinical Research Institute, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5845-7228

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• Jia Zhou

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wangke8430@163.com (KW); pdzhoujia@163.com (JZ)

  Affiliation Acupuncture Anesthesia Clinical Research Institute, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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