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ArticleAcupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society2010

Revised STandards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA): extending the CONSORT statement.

Hugh MacPherson, Douglas G Altman, Richard Hammerschlag, Youping Li, Taixiang Wu, Adrian White, David Moher, STRICTA Revision Group

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Article in Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 153 papers, 16 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

153 citing papers in PubMed, 16 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  12. What is the evidence for the use of acupuncture as an intervention for symptom management in cancer supportive and palliative care: an integrative overview of reviews.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2013
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  15. Systematic review of acupuncture in cancer care: a synthesis of the evidence.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Hugh MacPhersonDepartment of Health Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK. hm18@york.ac.uk
Douglas G Altman
Richard Hammerschlag
Youping Li
Taixiang Wu
Adrian White
David Moher
STRICTA Revision Group

Funding

Cancer Research UK
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The STandards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA) were published in five journals in 2001 and 2002. These guidelines, in the form of a checklist and explanations for use by authors and journal editors, were designed to improve reporting of acupuncture trials, particularly the interventions, thereby facilitating their interpretation and replication. Subsequent reviews of the application and impact of STRICTA have highlighted the value of STRICTA as well as scope for improvements and revision. To manage the revision process a collaboration between the STRICTA Group, the CONSORT Group and the Chinese Cochrane Centre was developed in 2008. An expert panel with 47 participants was convened that provided electronic feedback on a revised draft of the checklist. At a subsequent face-to-face meeting in Freiburg, a group of 21 participants further revised the STRICTA checklist and planned dissemination. The new STRICTA checklist, which is an official extension of CONSORT, includes 6 items and 17 subitems. These set out reporting guidelines for the acupuncture rationale, the details of needling, the treatment regimen, other components of treatment, the practitioner background and the control or comparator interventions. In addition, and as part of this revision process, the explanations for each item have been elaborated, and examples of good reporting for each item are provided. In addition, the word 'controlled' in STRICTA is replaced by 'clinical', to indicate that STRICTA is applicable to a broad range of clinical evaluation designs, including uncontrolled outcome studies and case reports. It is intended that the revised STRICTA checklist, in conjunction with both the main CONSORT statement and extension for non-pharmacological treatment, will raise the quality of reporting of clinical trials of acupuncture.

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Acupuncture TherapyControlled Clinical Trials as TopicGuidelines as TopicHumansPeer Review, ResearchPeriodicals as TopicPractice Guidelines as TopicPublishingQuality of Health CareResearch DesignUnited States

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PMID20615861
PMCPMC3002761

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