Professor WEIYA ZHANG's Outputs (2)

Relative efficacy of topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and topical capsaicin in osteoarthritis: protocol for an individual patient data meta-analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Persson, M. S., Fu, Y., Bhattacharya, A., Goh, S.-L., Middelkoop, M. V., Bierma-Zeinstra, S. M., Walsh, D. A., Doherty, M., & Zhang, W. (2016). Relative efficacy of topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and topical capsaicin in osteoarthritis: protocol for an individual patient data meta-analysis. Systematic Reviews, 5(1), Article 165. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0348-8

Background

Pain is the most troubling issue to patients with osteoarthritis (OA), yet current pharmacological treatments offer only small-to-moderate pain reduction. Current guidelines therefore emphasise the need to identify predictors of treatme... Read More about Relative efficacy of topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and topical capsaicin in osteoarthritis: protocol for an individual patient data meta-analysis.

Relative efficacy of different types of exercise for treatment of knee and hip osteoarthritis: Protocol for network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (2016)
Journal Article
Goh, S.-L., Persson, M., Bhattacharya, A., Hall, M. C., Doherty, M., & Zhang, W. (2016). Relative efficacy of different types of exercise for treatment of knee and hip osteoarthritis: Protocol for network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Systematic Reviews, 5(147), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0321-6

Background: “Exercise” is universally recommended as a core treatment for knee and hip osteoarthritis (OA). However, there are very few head-to-head comparative trials to determine the relative efficacy between different types of exercise. The aim of... Read More about Relative efficacy of different types of exercise for treatment of knee and hip osteoarthritis: Protocol for network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.