ArticleChinese journal of integrative medicine2010
Recent clinical trials of acupuncture in the West: responses from the practitioners.
Article in Chinese journal of integrative medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Evidence-Based Application of Acupuncture for Pain Management in Companion Animal Medicine.Veterinary sciences · 2022Review
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- A cross-sectional study of traditional Chinese medicine practitioner's knowledge, treatment strategies and integration of practice of chronic pelvic pain in women.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2021Article
- Survey analysis to determine the impact of evidence informed practice education upon East Asian medicine faculty clinical instruction and students' skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviors within a master's degree program.BMC medical education · 2021Article
- The Role of Research in Guiding Treatment for Women's Health: A Qualitative Study of Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncturists.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Placebo Effects in Acupuncture.Medical acupuncture · 2020Review
- Developing, Integrating, and Implementing Evidence-Informed Practice Curricula Throughout a Chinese Medicine Degree Program.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Research-related attitudes among Chinese medicine students at a Canadian college: a mixed-methods study.Integrative medicine research · 2019Article
- Acupuncture for cancer pain: protocol for a pilot pragmatic randomised controlled trial.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Interdisciplinary Relationship Models for Complementary and Integrative Health: Perspectives of Chinese Medicine Practitioners in the United States.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Article
- Is acupuncture no more than a placebo? Extensive discussion required about possible bias.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2015Article
- Real world research: a complementary method to establish the effectiveness of acupuncture.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2015Article
- Faculty survey to assess research literacy and evidence-informed practice interest and support at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2014Article
- Acupuncture Induces Time-Dependent Remodelling Brain Network on the Stable Somatosensory First-Ever Stroke Patients: Combining Diffusion Tensor and Functional MR Imaging.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2014Article
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Abstract
In the West, hundreds of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been performed testing acupuncture. They include two types: those that compare acupuncture to other therapies, usual care or no treatment (pragmatic trials), and those that have placebo controls (efficacy trials). Acupuncture has generally performed well against other therapies or no treatment, but until recently, the evidence from placebo controlled trials has been considered equivocal or contradictory. A recent series of large RCTs, mostly performed in Germany and also in the US have included both pragmatic and placebo comparisons. The evidence poises a conundrum for the profession of acupuncture. This essay first describes the two types of RCTs used to examine acupuncture and examine the results of two recent large RCTs for chronic low back pain as representative examples of recent large studies. The essay then presents the most common Euro-American acupuncture professions' interpretation of these results. Western responses have included: (1) methodological weaknesses; (2) inappropriateness of placebo controls; (3) questions as to whether acupuncture placebo controls are "inert"; (4) rejection of evidence-based medicine epistemology; (5) discrepancy between acupuncture performed in RCTs with real world acupuncture; (6) enhanced placebo effects of acupuncture; and (7) needs to re-evaluate acupuncture theory. The authors do not necessarily agree with all of these responses; they are presented in an attempt to foster critical discussion. The paper also looks at recent neuroimaging experiments on acupuncture that may point to some worthwhile new avenues of investigation. Finally, the Euro-American health care policy consequences of these recent RCTs are discussed.
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