Adverse events following acupuncture: prospective survey of 32 000 consultations with doctors and physiotherapists.

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

112 citing papers in PubMed, 22 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Clinical Effects of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis: An Umbrella Review of Level I Evidence.Journal of evidence-based medicine · 2026
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2. Acupuncture for systemic therapy-associated insomnia in patients with breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in oncology · 2025
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3. Acupuncture for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in neonates.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024
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4. Acupuncture for hip osteoarthritis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
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5. Acupuncture for acute hordeolum.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
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6. Acupuncture and Related Therapies for Symptom Management in Palliative Cancer Care: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Medicine · 2016
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7. Efficacy of Acupuncture for Bell's Palsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.PloS one · 2015
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8. The safety of acupuncture during pregnancy: a systematic review.Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society · 2014
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9. [Non-pharmaceutical measures, topical analgesics and oral administration of glucose in pain management: Austrian interdisciplinary recommendations on pediatric perioperative pain management].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2014
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10. Acupuncture for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in neonates.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013
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11. Manual acupuncture for treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.PloS one · 2013
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12. Moxibustion for the treatment of osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Rheumatology international · 2012
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13. Acupuncture for the treatment of tinnitus: a systematic review of randomized clinical trials.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2012
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14. Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: systematic review and meta-analysis.The American journal of gastroenterology · 2012
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15. Acupuncture for treatment of irritable bowel syndrome.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012
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16. Acupuncture for Bell's palsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2012
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17. Acupuncture-related adverse events: a systematic review of the Chinese literature.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2010
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18. Acupuncture for peripheral joint osteoarthritis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2010
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19. Acupuncture for migraine prophylaxis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2009
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20. Effects of acupuncture on rates of pregnancy and live birth among women undergoing in vitro fertilisation: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2008
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52 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

Corrections and comments

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  The safety of acupuncture.2001
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  Safety of acupuncture. Incident reporting and feedback may reduce risks.2002

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Funding

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