Effect of intradermal needle therapy at combined acupoints on patients’ gastrointestinal function following surgery for gastrointestinal tumors
Min Guo, Man Wang, Lu-Lu Chen, Fu-Juan Wei, Jin-E Li, Qing-Xiu Lu, Li Zhang, Hai-Xia Yang
Min Guo, Hai-Xia Yang, School of Nursing, Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an 710061, Shaanxi Province, China
Man Wang, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310016, Zhejiang Province, China
Lu-Lu Chen, Li Zhang, Department of Geriatric Gastrosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710046, Shaanxi Province, China
Fu-Juan Wei, Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710046, Shaanxi Province, China
Jin-E Li, Qing-Xiu Lu, Hai-Xia Yang, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710046, Shaanxi Province, China
Author contributions: Guo M and Yang HX designed this study and drafted the manuscript; Guo M, Yang HX, Chen LL, Wei FJ, Li JE, and Lu QX collected the data; Wang M and Zhang L analyzed the data; all authors read and approved the final manuscript to be published.
Supported by the Shaanxi Provincial Key Research and Development Program of China, No. 2020SF-278.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University.
Clinical trial registration statement: This study was registered in the Chinese Medical Research Registration and Filing Information System at
http://114.255.48.20/index. The registration identification number is MR-61-21-012956.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardians, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
CONSORT 2010 statement: The authors have read the CONSORT 2010 Statement, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the CONSORT 2010 Statement.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Hai-Xia Yang, MD, Chief Nurse, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 157 West Five Road, Xincheng District, Xi’an 710004, Shaanxi Province, China. 704287382@qq.com
Received: July 13, 2022
Peer-review started: July 13, 2022
First decision: July 31, 2022
Revised: August 16, 2022
Accepted: September 27, 2022
Article in press: September 27, 2022
Published online: November 6, 2022
