3. Exclude high titre rheumatoid factor and cryoglobulinaemia. 4. Preferably ensure that a
sufficient supply of a single product and batch of IVIG is available to expose the patient to a …

Things are changing. Acupuncture, a specific procedure of traditional East Asian medicine,
is now recommended in many countries as a viable treatment strategy for the management …

Conclusions The above briefly outlines steps necessary for improving the quality and validity
of systematic reviews of acupuncture. A new scale needs to be validated, either one that is a …

Systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials, rather than narrative reviews, generally
provide the approach that is least subject to bias for assessing the efficacy and effectiveness …

Background Acupuncture is one of the more popular forms of complementary and alternative
medicine. Whilst the therapy has been the subject of many published trials, systematic …

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are an important tool for clinicians and health authorities
to help select appropriate therapies for different patients and problems. While systematic …

112 Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine learned from that experience, and in our
subsequent neck pain review 8 we specifically stated that we would exclude such reports …

S ir, A recent article explored some of the problems in acupuncture research, particularly
how such research can mislead an 'acupuncture-naïve reader'[1]. The authors base their …

Every year more than two million articles are published in over 20000 biomedical journals
(Mulrow 1994). Even in a speciality area like acupuncture it is impossible to keep up to date …

Evidence-based medicine relies mainly on the findings from clinical trials, and to minimise
selection bias such trials should ideally be randomised. As the results of clinical studies are …