Targeting the opioid pathway for the treatment of chronic kidney disease‐associated pruritus: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials

British Journal of DermatologyVolume 186, Issue 3 p. 575-577 Research letter Targeting the opioid pathway for the treatment of chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials A.M.J. Bailey, A.M.J. Bailey orcid.org/0000-0002-4533-2805 Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada Contribution: Conceptualization (equal), Data curation (equal), Formal analysis (equal), Funding acquisition (equal), ​Investigation (equal), Methodology (equal), Project administration (equal), Resources (equal), Software (equal), Supervision (equal), Validation (equal), Visualization (equal), Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorH.O.-Y. Li, H.O.-Y. Li Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada Contribution: Data curation (equal), Methodology (equal), Validation (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorK. Burns, K. Burns Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada Contribution: Formal analysis (equal), Methodology (equal), Supervision (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorW. Cheng, W. Cheng Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA Contribution: Data curation (equal), ​Investigation (equal), Methodology (equal), Resources (equal), Software (equal), Validation (equal), Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorD. Collister, D. Collister Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Contribution: Formal analysis (equal), Methodology (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorE.P. Westby, E.P. Westby Department of Medicine, Division of Dermatology & Cutaneous Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Contribution: Supervision (equal), Visualization (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorK.S. Purdy, K.S. Purdy Department of Medicine, Division of Dermatology & Cutaneous Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Contribution: Formal analysis (equal), Project administration (equal), Supervision (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorM. Walsh, M. Walsh Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada Contribution: Formal analysis (equal), Methodology (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorK.K. Tennankore, Corresponding Author K.K. Tennankore karthikk.tennankore@nshealth.ca Division of Nephrology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Contribution: Conceptualization (equal), Formal analysis (equal), ​Investigation (equal), Methodology (equal), Project administration (equal), Resources (equal), Supervision (equal), Validation (equal), Visualization (equal), Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this author A.M.J. Bailey, A.M.J. Bailey orcid.org/0000-0002-4533-2805 Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada Contribution: Conceptualization (equal), Data curation (equal), Formal analysis (equal), Funding acquisition (equal), ​Investigation (equal), Methodology (equal), Project administration (equal), Resources (equal), Software (equal), Supervision (equal), Validation (equal), Visualization (equal), Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorH.O.-Y. Li, H.O.-Y. Li Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada Contribution: Data curation (equal), Methodology (equal), Validation (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorK. Burns, K. Burns Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada Contribution: Formal analysis (equal), Methodology (equal), Supervision (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorW. Cheng, W. Cheng Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA Contribution: Data curation (equal), ​Investigation (equal), Methodology (equal), Resources (equal), Software (equal), Validation (equal), Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorD. Collister, D. Collister Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Contribution: Formal analysis (equal), Methodology (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorE.P. Westby, E.P. Westby Department of Medicine, Division of Dermatology & Cutaneous Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Contribution: Supervision (equal), Visualization (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorK.S. Purdy, K.S. Purdy Department of Medicine, Division of Dermatology & Cutaneous Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Contribution: Formal analysis (equal), Project administration (equal), Supervision (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorM. Walsh, M. Walsh Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada Contribution: Formal analysis (equal), Methodology (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this authorK.K. Tennankore, Corresponding Author K.K. Tennankore karthikk.tennankore@nshealth.ca Division of Nephrology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Contribution: Conceptualization (equal), Formal analysis (equal), ​Investigation (equal), Methodology (equal), Project administration (equal), Resources (equal), Supervision (equal), Validation (equal), Visualization (equal), Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)Search for more papers by this author First published: 28 September 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.20769 Funding sources: none. Conflicts of interest: the authors declare they have no conflicts of interest. Data availability: data from this study are available upon request from the corresponding author. 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