Designing an acupuncture study: II. The nationwide, randomized, controlled German acupuncture trials on low-back pain and gonarthrosis

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 733-742

  Molsberger, Albrecht F ^a,f   Streitberger, Konrad ^b   Kraemer, Juergen ^c   Brittinger, Carmen Schade ^d   Witte, Steffen ^b   Boewing, Gabriele ^a   Haake, Michael ^e  

^a Acupuncture Research Group   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^f Forschungsgruppe Akupunktur   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC; ROFECOXIB;

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; GERMANY; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845589623     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2006.12.733     Document Type: Article

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