ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2008
How the public is being misled about complementary/alternative medicine.
Article in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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
6 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Medicinal plant use in a context of coloniality: Congolese perspectives on lost and preserved healing traditions in Belgium.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2025Article
- Cannabidiol for Viral Diseases: Hype or Hope?Cannabis and cannabinoid research · 2020Review
- Interaction between phytotherapy and oral anticancer agents: prospective study and literature review.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2019Review
- Using psychological theory and qualitative methods to develop a new evidence-based website about acupuncture for back pain.European journal of integrative medicine · 2016Article
- EBM and CAM.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2008Article
Corrections and comments
- Commented on byEBM and CAM.2008
Authors and funding
1 author.
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Abstract
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Registered trials
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