ReviewChinese journal of integrative medicine2011
Clinical research on acupuncture - Concepts and guidance on efficacy and effectiveness research.
Review in Chinese journal of integrative medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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
19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Approach to Assess Adequacy of Acupuncture in Randomized Controlled Trials: A Systematic Review.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2023Pooled it
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- The Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Electroacupuncture (EA) in Perioperative Rehabilitation of Rotator Cuff Repair Surgery: A Protocol for a Single-Centre, Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
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- Research Trends on Acupuncture for Shoulder Pain Treatment Over the Past 15 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis.Journal of pain research · 2023Review
- Research progress on the immunomodulatory mechanism of acupuncture in tumor immune microenvironment.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
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- 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
- 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
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- Research Trends of Acupuncture Therapy on Knee Osteoarthritis from 2010 to 2019: A Bibliometric Analysis.Journal of pain research · 2020Review
- Effect of acupuncture on lung cancer-related fatigue: study protocol for a multi-center randomized controlled trial.Trials · 2019Article
- Effectiveness of acupuncture for cancer pain: protocol for an umbrella review and meta-analyses of controlled trials.BMJ open · 2017Article
- Real world research: a complementary method to establish the effectiveness of acupuncture.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2015Article
- The status of acupuncture and oriental medicine in the United States.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2014Article
- Which research is needed to support clinical decision-making on integrative medicine?- Can comparative effectiveness research close the gap?Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2012Review
- Effectiveness Guidance Document (EGD) for acupuncture research - a consensus document for conducting trials.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2012Article
- Acupuncture: a paradigm of worldwide cross-cultural communication.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2011Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Over the last few years a number of large acupuncture trials have been carried out in western countries. carried out in western countries. The following article draws on the experience from these recent large-scale trials on acupuncture to outline the way randomized trials could be used to answer questions on efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency. It will provide guidance, firstly on the underlying concepts of both efficacy and effectiveness and secondly on designing both types of trials. In addition, the controversy over specific and non-specific effects of acupuncture, emerging from the results of the above-mentioned trials, will be highlighted. Suggestions for future clinical research on acupuncture include: greater reflection on the complex approach of Chinese medicine, and transparent and detailed reporting according to CONSORT and STRICTA guidelines. The current data on acupuncture point-specific effects do indeed have relevance, however for valid decision-making on acupuncture, further clinical trials on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness are required to provide realistic benefit estimates for future health care.
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