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ArticleMedical acupuncture2022

Acupuncture for Climacteric-Like Symptoms in Breast Cancer Improves Sleep, Mental and Emotional Health: A Randomized Trial.

Eduardo Guilherme D'Alessandro, Alexandre Valotta da Silva, Rebeca Boltes Cecatto, Christina May Moran de Brito, Raymundo Soares Azevedo, Chin An Lin

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Article in Medical acupuncture, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Acupuncture in cancer care: a narrative review.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2024
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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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Eduardo Guilherme D'AlessandroDepartment of Internal Medicine, Instituto do Câncer do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Alexandre Valotta da SilvaDepartment of Medical Acupuncture, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Bragança Paulista, Bragança Paulista, Brazil.
Rebeca Boltes CecattoRehabilitation Service, Instituto do Câncer do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Christina May Moran de BritoRehabilitation Service, Instituto do Câncer do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Raymundo Soares AzevedoDepartment of Pathology, The University of São Paulo Faculty of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
Chin An LinDepartment of Internal Medicine, The University of São Paulo Faculty of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo · BRUniversidade de São Paulo · BRSanta Casa da Misericórdia de Bragança Paulista · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

acupuncturebreast cancerclimactericdepressionhot-flashinsomnia

Identifiers

PMID35251438
PMCPMC8886926
OpenAlexW4214807751

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Registered trials

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