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ReviewFrontiers in medicine2020

The Relevance of Complementary and Integrative Medicine in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Review of the Literature.

Georg Seifert, Michael Jeitler, Rainer Stange, Andreas Michalsen, Holger Cramer, Benno Brinkhaus, Tobias Esch, Annette Kerckhoff, Anna Paul, Michael Teut and 5 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
13.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

15 authors at 9 institutions in 4 countries.

Georg SeifertDepartment of Paediatric Oncology/Haematology, Otto-Heubner Centre for Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine (OHC), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
Michael JeitlerDepartment of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Rainer StangeDepartment of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Andreas MichalsenDepartment of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Holger CramerDepartment of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Evang. Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Benno BrinkhausInstitute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
Tobias EschInstitute for Integrative Health Care and Health Promotion, University Clinic for Integrative Health Care, Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.
Annette KerckhoffInstitute for Integrative Health Care and Health Promotion, University Clinic for Integrative Health Care, Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.
Anna PaulDepartment of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Evang. Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Michael TeutInstitute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
Pirus GhadjarDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
Jost LanghorstDepartment of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Klinikum Bamberg, Chair for Integrative Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Bamberg, Germany.
Thomas HäuplDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
Vijay MurthyFaculty of Medicine, Primary Care and Population Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Christian S KesslerDepartment of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · DECharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEFreie Universität Berlin · DEImmanuel Krankenhaus · DEWitten/Herdecke University · DEKliniken Essen-Mitte · DESouthern Cross University · AUUniversity of Duisburg-Essen · DEUniversity of Southampton · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

botanicalscomplementary medicineCOVID-19integrative medicinemind-body medicinephytomedicineSARS-CoV-2traditional medicine systems

Identifiers

PMID33363186
PMCPMC7761649
OpenAlexW3113295326

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Registered trials

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