Acupuncture may be associated with serious adverse events.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Massage therapy versus simple touch to improve pain and mood in patients with advanced cancer: a randomized trial.Annals of internal medicine · 2008
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2. Analysis of Adverse Events in Acupuncture and Moxibustion Treatments in Japan and the Current Situation of Hiroshima University Hospital Kampo Clinical Center.Medical acupuncture · 2025
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3. Reply to the Letter to the Editor: Acquired Acromion Compromise, Including Thinning and Fragmentation, Is Not Associated With Poor Outcomes After Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty.Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2025
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Acupuncture: safety first.1997
• Comment on
  Indwelling needles carry greater risks than acupuncture techniques.1999
• Comment on
  ABC of complementary medicine. Acupuncture.1999

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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