ArticleRevista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health2021
Traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine evidence map: a methodology to an overflowing field of data and noise.
Article in Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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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.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Traditional Chinese Medicine for Post-stroke Sleep Disorders: The Evidence Mapping of Clinical Studies.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Mind-Body Therapies From Traditional Chinese Medicine: Evidence Map.Frontiers in public health · 2021Pooled it
- Evidence map of Tai Chi interventions for older adults.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- A scoping review of the barriers and facilitators in the use of traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine: insights for health policy development.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Integration of Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine in the Institutionalization of Evidence-Informed Decision-Making: The World Health Organization Meeting Report.Journal of integrative and complementary medicine · 2025Article
- Evidence map of strategies for preventing and controllingRevista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2025Review
- A review of the WHO strategy on traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine from the perspective of academic consortia for integrative medicine and health.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Review
- Evidence map of diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, prevention, and control in visceral leishmaniasis.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2022Review
- The role of ozone treatment as integrative medicine. An evidence and gap map.Frontiers in public health · 2022Review
- Occupational health, integrative and complementary practices in primary care, and the Covid-19 pandemic.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2022Article
- Naturopathy, complementary and integrative medicine in medical education - position paper by the GMA Committee Integrative Medicine and Perspective Pluralism.GMS journal for medical education · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Every day there is criticism about lack of evidence on traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine (TCIM). But is this narrative evidence-based? Are we really missing research about TCIM? Or are we just not looking correctly at the evidence? Evidence maps are a useful method with the dual function of synthesizing available evidence on a specific topic and identifying knowledge gaps. This article presents a six-step evidence map methodology along with recently published TCIM evidence maps, including one related to COVID-19. TCIM evidence maps are useful instruments to inform decision-making for policymakers, health practitioners, and patients.
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