How Much of CAM Is Based on Research Evidence?

The aim of this article is to provide a preliminary estimate of how much CAM is evidence-based. For this purpose, I calculated the percentage of 685 treatment/condition pairings evaluated in the “Desktop Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine” which are supported by sound data. The resultin...

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Autor principal: Ernst, Edzard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19465405
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecam/nep044
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description The aim of this article is to provide a preliminary estimate of how much CAM is evidence-based. For this purpose, I calculated the percentage of 685 treatment/condition pairings evaluated in the “Desktop Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine” which are supported by sound data. The resulting figure was 7.4%. For a range of reasons, it might be a gross over-estimate. Further investigations into this subject are required to arrive at more representative figures.
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spelling pubmed-31368812011-07-26 How Much of CAM Is Based on Research Evidence? Ernst, Edzard Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Commentary The aim of this article is to provide a preliminary estimate of how much CAM is evidence-based. For this purpose, I calculated the percentage of 685 treatment/condition pairings evaluated in the “Desktop Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine” which are supported by sound data. The resulting figure was 7.4%. For a range of reasons, it might be a gross over-estimate. Further investigations into this subject are required to arrive at more representative figures. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3136881/ /pubmed/19465405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecam/nep044 Text en Copyright © 2011 Edzard Ernst. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136881/
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