Quality of reporting and its correlates among randomized controlled trials on acupuncture for cancer pain: Application of the CONSORT 2010 Statement and STRICTA

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 489-498

  Lu, Liming ^a   Liao, Muxi ^b   Zeng, Jingchun ^c   He, Jun ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^c Pingyang People's Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

acupuncture; cancer pain; quality of reporting; randomized controlled trials; STRICTA; the CONSORT Statement

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; CANCER PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGIC INDEX SCORE; OVERALL QUALITY SCORE; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; THERAPY EFFECT;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAIN; PUBLISHING; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84876151645     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/era.13.27     Document Type: Review

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