ArticleGlobal advances in health and medicine2021
Acupuncture Intervention Protocol: Consensus Process for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Acupuncture for Management of Chronic Low Back Pain in Older Adults: An NIH HEAL Initiative Funded Project.
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- Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain in Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Baseline sample characteristics for the BackInAction pragmatic trial of acupuncture for chronic low back pain in older adults.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Trial
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- Prior acupuncture experience among elderly participants enrolled in a clinical trial of acupuncture for chronic low back pain: Implications for future trials.Integrative medicine research · 2024Article
- Improving Delphi Process in Acupuncture Decision Making: Overall Descriptions and Quality Assessment of Delphi Reports.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Review
- Acupuncture for chronic low back pain in older adults: Design and protocol for the BackInAction pragmatic clinical trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Article
- Acupuncture intervention for acute pain in the Emergency Department trial: a consensus process.Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society · 2022Article
- How to design high quality acupuncture trials-a consensus informed by evidence.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2022Article
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- Enhancing the use of EHR systems for pragmatic embedded research: lessons from the NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2021Article
- Recruitment and Retention for an Acupuncture Trial in an Underrepresented 65 and Older Population With Chronic Low Back Pain.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
- Group Acupuncture Therapy With Yoga Therapy for Chronic Neck, Low Back, and Osteoarthritis Pain in Safety Net Settings for an Underserved Population: A Feasibility Pilot Study.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of this article is to describe the consensus process used to develop an acupuncture intervention protocol for an NIH-funded pragmatic randomized controlled trial (PRCT) of acupuncture for the management of chronic low back (cLBP) in older adults (BackInAction).
backgroundCLBP is among leading causes of disability worldwide: almost 33% of US adults 65 and older experience LBP. Acupuncture is effective for cLBP but there is no specific data on older adults. The National Institutes for Health (NIH) funded a PRCT of acupuncture needling for this population. An essential trial milestone was development of a consensus intervention protocol.
methodsAn Acupuncture Advisory Panel (AAP) was formed with nine members: two physician-acupuncturists, six licensed acupuncturists representing diverse work backgrounds, and an acupuncture researcher. We used a modified Delphi process that included provision of acupuncture trial data, survey data describing how each expert treats cLBP, three conference calls, and between-call email discussion.
resultsLively and professional discussions led to a consensus intervention protocol for the BackInAction trial that included steps/staging of care, recommendations for parameters of care session length, number of needle insertion sites, insertion depths, needle retention times, recommended types of needles, both local and distal areas of the body to be treated, acupuncture point options, auricular point options, self-care options, and minimum number of sessions considered ideal.
conclusionUsing a modified Delphi process, an expert AAP created a consensus intervention protocol for the PRCT of acupuncture needling for cLBP in patients 65 and older.
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