Are Sham Acupuncture Interventions More Effective than (Other) Placebos? A Re-Analysis of Data from the Cochrane Review on Placebo Effects | Zendy

Klaus Linde | Zendy; Karin Niemann | Zendy; Karin Meißner | Zendy

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Are Sham Acupuncture Interventions More Effective than (Other) Placebos? A Re-Analysis of Data from the Cochrane Review on Placebo Effects

Author(s) -

Klaus Linde,

Karin Niemann,

Karin Meißner

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

forschende komplementärmedizin / research in complementary medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1661-4127

pISSN - 1661-4119

DOI - 10.1159/000320374

Subject(s) - acupuncture , medicine , placebo , meta analysis , psychological intervention , physical therapy , confidence interval , randomized controlled trial , subgroup analysis , strictly standardized mean difference , clinical trial , alternative medicine , psychiatry , pathology

A recent Cochrane review on placebo interventions for all kinds of conditions found that 'physical placebos' (which included sham acupuncture) were associated with larger effects over no-treatment control groups than 'pharmacological placebos'. We re-analyzed the data from this review to investigate whether effects associated with sham acupuncture differed from those of other 'physical placebos'.

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