Historical perspectives on using sham acupuncture in acupuncture clinical trials

Background: Trials of acupuncture in the West began before textbooks about acupuncture were generally available. This placed trials at risk of possible faulty assumptions about the practice of acupuncture and adoption of problematic research assumptions and methods. Further, this lack of information...

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Main Authors: Stephen Birch, Myeong Soo Lee, Tae-Hun Kim, Terje Alraek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-03-01
Series:Integrative Medicine Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213422021000123