The quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials of electroacupuncture for stroke

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Wei, Jing jing ^a   Yang, Wen ting ^a   Yin, Su bing ^a   Wang, Chen ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Zheng, Guo qing ^a  

^a THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL AND YUYING CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electroacupuncture; Methodology; Randomized controlled trial; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; STROKE PATIENT; META ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDS; STROKE;

ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STROKE;

EID: 85003550742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12906-016-1497-y     Document Type: Article

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