Efficacy and safety of herbal medicine combined with acupuncture in pediatric epilepsy treatment: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

• Hong-Wen Su ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HWS and HTC contributed equally as first authors to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Chinese Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan City, Taiwan

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• Hsiao-Tien Chen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HWS and HTC contributed equally as first authors to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Chinese Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan City, Taiwan

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• Chia-Li Kao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

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• Kuo-Chuan Hung,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan City, Taiwan

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• Yao-Tsung Lin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan City, Taiwan

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• Ping-Hsin Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, E-Da Dachang Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

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• Chien-Ming Lin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan City, Taiwan

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• I-Wen Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cheniwena60912@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan City, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7122-6901

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