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Systematic reviews of complementary therapies - an annotated bibliography. Part 1: Acupuncture
BACKGROUND: Complementary therapies are widespread but controversial. We aim to provide a comprehensive collection and a summary of systematic reviews of clinical trials in three major complementary therapies (acupuncture, herbal medicine, homeopathy). This article is dealing with acupuncture. Poten...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC37539/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11513758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-1-3 |
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author | Linde, Klaus Vickers, Andrew Hondras, Maria ter Riet, Gerben Thormählen, Johannes Berman, Brian Melchart, Dieter |
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description | BACKGROUND: Complementary therapies are widespread but controversial. We aim to provide a comprehensive collection and a summary of systematic reviews of clinical trials in three major complementary therapies (acupuncture, herbal medicine, homeopathy). This article is dealing with acupuncture. Potentially relevant reviews were searched through the register of the Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field, the Cochrane Library, Medline, and bibliographies of articles and books. To be included articles had to review prospective clinical trials of acupuncture; had to describe review methods explicitly; had to be published; and had to focus on treatment effects. Information on conditions, interventions, methods, results and conclusions was extracted using a pretested form and summarized descriptively. RESULTS: From a total of 48 potentially relevant reviews preselected in a screeening process 39 met the inclusion criteria. 22 were on various pain syndromes or rheumatic diseases. Other topics addressed by more than one review were addiction, nausea, asthma and tinnitus. Almost unanimously the reviews state that acupuncture trials include too few patients. Often included trials are heterogeneous regarding patients, interventions and outcome measures, are considered to have insufficient quality and contradictory results. Convincing evidence is available only for postoperative nausea, for which acupuncture appears to be of benefit, and smoking cessation, where acupuncture is no more effective than sham acupuncture. CONCLUSIONS: A large number of systematic reviews on acupuncture exists. What is most obvious from these reviews is the need for (the funding of) well-designed, larger clinical trials. |
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spelling | pubmed-375392001-08-21 Systematic reviews of complementary therapies - an annotated bibliography. Part 1: Acupuncture Linde, Klaus Vickers, Andrew Hondras, Maria ter Riet, Gerben Thormählen, Johannes Berman, Brian Melchart, Dieter BMC Complement Altern Med Research Article BACKGROUND: Complementary therapies are widespread but controversial. We aim to provide a comprehensive collection and a summary of systematic reviews of clinical trials in three major complementary therapies (acupuncture, herbal medicine, homeopathy). This article is dealing with acupuncture. Potentially relevant reviews were searched through the register of the Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field, the Cochrane Library, Medline, and bibliographies of articles and books. To be included articles had to review prospective clinical trials of acupuncture; had to describe review methods explicitly; had to be published; and had to focus on treatment effects. Information on conditions, interventions, methods, results and conclusions was extracted using a pretested form and summarized descriptively. RESULTS: From a total of 48 potentially relevant reviews preselected in a screeening process 39 met the inclusion criteria. 22 were on various pain syndromes or rheumatic diseases. Other topics addressed by more than one review were addiction, nausea, asthma and tinnitus. Almost unanimously the reviews state that acupuncture trials include too few patients. Often included trials are heterogeneous regarding patients, interventions and outcome measures, are considered to have insufficient quality and contradictory results. Convincing evidence is available only for postoperative nausea, for which acupuncture appears to be of benefit, and smoking cessation, where acupuncture is no more effective than sham acupuncture. CONCLUSIONS: A large number of systematic reviews on acupuncture exists. What is most obvious from these reviews is the need for (the funding of) well-designed, larger clinical trials. BioMed Central 2001-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC37539/ /pubmed/11513758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-1-3 Text en Copyright © 2001 Linde et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Linde, Klaus Vickers, Andrew Hondras, Maria ter Riet, Gerben Thormählen, Johannes Berman, Brian Melchart, Dieter Systematic reviews of complementary therapies - an annotated bibliography. Part 1: Acupuncture |
title | Systematic reviews of complementary therapies - an annotated bibliography. Part 1: Acupuncture |
title_full | Systematic reviews of complementary therapies - an annotated bibliography. Part 1: Acupuncture |
title_fullStr | Systematic reviews of complementary therapies - an annotated bibliography. Part 1: Acupuncture |
title_full_unstemmed | Systematic reviews of complementary therapies - an annotated bibliography. Part 1: Acupuncture |
title_short | Systematic reviews of complementary therapies - an annotated bibliography. Part 1: Acupuncture |
title_sort | systematic reviews of complementary therapies - an annotated bibliography. part 1: acupuncture |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC37539/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11513758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-1-3 |
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