Evidence-based medicine and acupuncture: Old bias for new perspectives in clinical context

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1035-1037

  Tassinari, Mariateresa ^a   Roberti Di Sarsina, Paolo ^b  

^a Charity for Person Centred Medicine Moral Entity   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PLACEBO EFFECT; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PLACEBO EFFECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84959451335     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jep.12435     Document Type: Review

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