Efficacy and safety of acupuncture for chronic pain caused by gonarthrosis: A study protocol of an ongoing multi-centre randomised controlled clinical trial [ISRCTN27450856]

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Streitberger, Konrad ^a   Witte, Steffen ^a   Mansmann, Ulrich ^a   Knauer, Christine ^a   Krämer, Jürgen ^b   Scharf, Hanns Peter ^a   Victor, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LEGAL ASPECT; PATIENT MONITORING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 2442691620     PISSN: 14726882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-4-6     Document Type: Article

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