Placebo Acupuncture in an Acupuncture Clinical Trial: How Good is the Blinding Effect?

JAMS Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 40-43

  Wong, Eliza Lai Yi ^a   Leung, Ping Chung ^a   Zhang, Lang ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Clinical trial; Placebo

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; MALE; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; VALIDITY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PLACEBO EFFECT; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; PLACEBO EFFECT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922032844     PISSN: 20052901     EISSN: 20938152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jams.2014.10.010     Document Type: Article

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