The Future of Complementary and Integrative Medicine Research - International Perspectives
Author(s) -
Claudia M. Witt,
Jürgen Barth,
Claudia Canella
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
complementary medicine research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.238
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 2504-2106
pISSN - 2504-2092
DOI - 10.1159/000381512
Subject(s) - integrative medicine , alternative medicine , complementary medicine , medicine , traditional medicine , engineering ethics , medical education , engineering , pathology
rently, there are about 57,500 CAM trials from all over the world registered in the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and about 690 systematic CAM reviews in the Cochrane Database. Berman presented a few examples of systematic CAM reviews before concluding with future challenges, such as conducting reliable subgroup analyses (e.g., individual patient data meta-analysis or network meta-analysis) and systematic reviews on complex interventions as well as defining what can be considered as scientifically rigorous or relevant to real-world practice of medicine.
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