Acupuncture: Its evidence-base is changing

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-25

  Ernst, Edzard ^a   Pittler, M H ^a   Wider, B ^a   Boddy, K ^a  

^a PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Effectiveness; Systematic Reviews

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BACKACHE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DATA ANALYSIS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; IRRITABLE COLON; MEDICAL LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; MIGRAINE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NECK PAIN; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREND STUDY;

ACUPUNCTURE; ATTITUDE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; REVIEW LITERATURE;

EID: 33846840891     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X07004588     Document Type: Article

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