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SynthesisBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2005

Cost effectiveness of complementary treatments in the United Kingdom: systematic review.

Peter H Canter, Joanna Thompson Coon, Edzard Ernst

Abstract readSystematic Review
In one paragraph

Synthesis in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. The use of economic evaluation in CAM: an introductory framework.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2010
    Article
  5. Review
  6. How the public is being misled about complementary/alternative medicine.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2008
    Article
  7. Article
  8. Complementary and alternative medicine: what the NHS should be funding?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2008
    Article
  9. Appraisals of specific treatments are needed.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
    Article
  10. Cost-effectiveness of complementary therapies in the United kingdom-a systematic review.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2006
    Article
  11. Acupuncture in mainstream health care.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2006
    Article
  12. The "Smallwood report": method or madness?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2006
    Article
  13. Scientific evidence was ignored in CAM and the NHS.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2005
    Article
  14. Complementary therapies and the NHS.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2005
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Peter H CanterComplementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, Exeter EX2 4NT. peter.canter@pms.ac.uk
Joanna Thompson Coon
Edzard Ernst

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Complementary TherapiesCost-Benefit AnalysisHumansProspective StudiesQuality-Adjusted Life YearsRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicState MedicineUnited Kingdom

Identifiers

PMID16223821
PMCPMC1255794

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Registered trials

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