Reporting characteristics and risk of bias in randomised controlled trials of acupuncture analgesia published in PubMed-listed journals.

CONCLUSIONS: RCTs of acupuncture analgesia indexed in PubMed journals generally exhibited poor reporting of methodological and treatment details. Future studies should provide more information regarding clinical trial registration, blinding of participants (including sham procedures where applicable) and outcome assessors, as well as the training and qualification of acupuncturists.
PMID: 28082266 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Acupuncture in Medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society - January 11, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Li X, Wang R, Shi X, Chen Z, Pan Y, Li X, Yang K Tags: Acupunct Med Source Type: research