Acupuncture and electroacupuncture for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2010, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

  Casimiro, Lynn ^a   Barnsley, Les ^b   Brosseau, Lucie ^c   Milne, Sarah ^d   Welch, Vivian ^a   Tugwell, Peter ^e   Wells, George A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 33644878345     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003788.pub2     Document Type: Article

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