Auricular acupuncture for postoperative pain control: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials
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Acupuncture treatment for pain: systematic review of randomised clinical trials with acupuncture, placebo acupuncture, and no acupuncture groups
OBJECTIVES To study the analgesic effect of acupuncture and placebo acupuncture and to explore whether the type of the placebo acupuncture is associated with the estimated effect of acupuncture. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis of three armed randomised clinical trials. DATA SOURCES Cochrane Library, Medline, Embase, Biological Abstracts, and PsycLIT. Data extraction and analysis ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0003-2409,1365-2044
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05632.x