Future research in acupuncture: Better design and analysis for novel and valid findings

Current Research in Acupuncture

Volumn 9781461433576, Issue , 2013, Pages 687-725

  Asakawa, Tetsuya ^a   Xia, Ying ^b,c,d  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Clinical acupunctural epidemiology; Clinical epidemiology; Clinical trial; Confounding; Consort; Double blind control; Evidence based medicine; Experimental design; Jadad index; Placebo; Randomization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949175533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3357-6_23     Document Type: Chapter

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