Should NICE evaluate complementary and alternative medicine?

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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Neck pain clinical practice guidelines: a systematic review of the quality and quantity of complementary and alternative medicine recommendations.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2022
   Pooled it
2. Internet-based randomised controlled trials for the evaluation of complementary and alternative medicines: probiotics in spondyloarthropathy.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2008
   Trial
3. Complementary and alternative medicine mention and recommendations in pancreatic cancer clinical practice guidelines: A systematic review and quality assessment.Integrative medicine research · 2023
   Review
4. Complementary and integrative medicine mention and recommendations: A systematic review and quality assessment of lung cancer clinical practice guidelines.Integrative medicine research · 2021
   Review
5. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Familiarization: What's happening in Medical Schools in Wales?Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2010
   Article
6. 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
7. Appraisals of specific treatments are needed.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Appraisals of specific treatments are needed.2007

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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