Chinese herbal medicine for functional dyspepsia: a network meta-analysis of prokinetic-controlled randomised trials

Table 9 Classification of interventions based on network meta-analysis on alleviating global symptoms at 4-week follow-up: mosapride as comparator

Classification of intervention	CHM formula	Risk difference (95% CI)	Surface under the cumulative ranking curve	Certainty of evidence⁺
Small beneficial effect^†	Da Li Tong Granules	0.12 (− 0.05, 0.35)	0.85	Low
Trivial to no beneficial effect^‡	Bu Gan Decoction	0.02 (− 0.11, 0.19)	0.44	Low
Trivial to no beneficial effect^‡	Tiao Wei Xiao Pi Decoction	0.01 (− 0.11, 0.17)	0.39	Low

CHM Chinese herbal medicine, CI Confidence interval
^†Small beneficial effect: 0.20 > risk difference ≥ 0.08
^‡Trivial to no beneficial effect: risk difference < 0.08
⁺Quality of evidence ratings for comparisons in network meta-analysis on alleviating global symptoms at 4-week follow-up (mosapride as the comparator). Details refer to Additional file 1: Appendix 6

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