Complementary and alternative medicine therapies for uremic pruritus – A systematic review of randomized controlled trials
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Evaluation of randomized controlled trials on complementary and alternative medicine.
OBJECTIVES Use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is growing in all Western countries. The goal of this study was to evaluate quality of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of CAM interventions for specific diagnoses to inform clinical decision making. METHODS MEDLINE and related databases were searched for CAM RCTs. Visual review was done of bibliographies, meta-analyses, and CA...
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عنوان ژورنال: Complementary Therapies in Medicine
سال: 2021
ISSN: 0965-2299
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2020.102609