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ArticleMedicines (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Robot-Controlled Acupuncture-An Innovative Step towards Modernization of the Ancient Traditional Medical Treatment Method.

Kun-Chan Lan, Gerhard Litscher

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Article in Medicines (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from 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.

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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Face acupoint recognition and localization based on geometric topological relationships.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2026
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  4. Research on acupuncture robots based on the OptiTrack motion capture system and a robotic arm.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2025
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  9. Guidance for Acupuncture Robot with Potentially Utilizing Medical Robotic Technologies.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021
    Review
  10. Overview of Artificial Intelligence Applications in Chinese Medicine Therapy.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kun-Chan LanDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 704, Taiwan.
Gerhard LitscherTraditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Research Center Graz, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, and Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria. gerhard.litscher@medunigraz.at.ORCID 0000-0001-6287-0130

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology a MOST Add-on Grant for International Cooperation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

computer-controlled acupuncture (CCA)high-tech acupuncturerobot-assisted acupuncture (RAA)robot-controlled acupuncture (RCA)

Identifiers

PMID31405133
PMCPMC6789488

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