Research Article
Scientific Evidence of Chinese Herbal Medicine (Gegen Qinlian Decoction) in the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis
Table 5
Certainty of evidence quality.
| | Author, year | Outcomes | Limitations | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Publication bias | Relative effect (95% CI) | Quality |
| | Tang et al. [14], 2021 | Effective rate | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | OR 3.77 (2.61, 5.45) | M | | Adverse events | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | OR 0.43 (0.21, 0.90) | M | | Recurrence rate | -1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | OR 0.16 (0.05, 0.50) | L |
| | Xing [15], 2021 | Level of TNF-α | -1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -1 | SMD -0.81 (-1.07, -0.54) | CL | | Level of IL-6 | -1 | -1 | 0 | -1 | -1 | SMD -1.20 (-2.00, -0.41) | CL |
| | Qin et al. [16], 2019 | Effective rate | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | RR 1.18 (1.06, 1.30) | M | | Adverse events | -1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | RR O.11 (0.041, 1.92) | L | | Mucosal improvement | -1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | RR 1.13 (0.95, 1.88) | L |
| | Fan [17], 2019 | Effective rate | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | RR 1.21 (1.16, 1.27) | M | | Recurrence rate | -1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | RR 0.18 (0.06, 0.61) | L | | Adverse events | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | RR 0.37 (0.15, 0.90) | M | | UCEIS score | -1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | MD -0.63 (-1.26, -0.01) | L |
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