Toward development of appropriate clinical trial methodology for acupuncture: Considerations and design of a research project on stress

American Journal of Acupuncture

Volumn 25, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 161-168

  Garvey, Mary ^a   Rogers, Carole ^a   Ryan, Damien ^a   Congxing, Yang ^a   Zaslawski, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Clinical trial design; Stress; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STRESS;

EID: 0030848776     PISSN: 00913960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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