The case of acupuncture for chronic low back pain: when efficacy and comparative effectiveness conflict.

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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. The Trials and Tribulations of Selecting Comparison Groups in Randomized Trials of Nonpharmacological Complementary and Integrative Health Interventions.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2020
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2. Functional network architecture predicts psychologically mediated analgesia related to treatment in chronic knee pain patients.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014
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3. The effect of electroacupuncture on the extracellular matrix synthesis and degradation in a rabbit model of disc degeneration.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2014
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2 authors.

Funding

Abstract

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