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Complementary and Alternative Medical Treatments: Can They Really be Evaluated by Randomised Controlled Trials?

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Complementary and Alternative Medical Treatments: Can They Really be Evaluated by Randomised Controlled Trials?

Wan, Leon
Acupuncture in Medicine , Volume 34 (5): 2 – Oct 1, 2016
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SAGE
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© 2016 British Medical Acupuncutre Society
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0964-5284
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1759-9873
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10.1136/acupmed-2016-011136
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27586665
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Abstract

Letter double blind study on acupuncture, downside to this approach is that Complementary and I’d have to be ignorant about whe- specific and non-specific effects alternative medical ther I was giving correct or incor- cannot be separated. treatments: can they really rect treatment… it can never be Greater utilisation of pragmatic blind from the practitioner’s side”. trials, which take into account over- be evaluated by According to practitioners and all effectiveness and can also be randomised controlled patients, both the physical and used to assess cost-effectiveness, trials? psychological effects of acu- could help medical decision-mak- puncture are critical in treatment. ing. For example, a large 2006 Complementary and alternative Irrespective of treatment rationale, non-commercially funded UK-wide medicine (CAM) has grown in pop- acupuncturists generally agree that pragmatic trial of acupuncture for ularity with the changing burden elicitation of the de qi sensation is chronic back pain and a linked of disease towards chronic illness. important for therapeutic effects, cost-effectiveness study by Ratcliffe Arguably, this has not coincided with as it correlates with Aδ nerve fibre et al resulted in the National any significant increase in ‘evidence- stimulation. In Chinese medicine, Institute for Health and Care based medicine’ supporting its

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Published: Oct 1, 2016

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