Systematic review of acupuncture placebo devices with a focus on the credibility of blinding of healthy participants and/or acupuncturists.

George Shengxi ZhangClaire Shuiqing ZhangHsiewe Ying TanYanyi WangCliff DaCostaAnthony Lin ZhangCharlie Changli XueYi Min Xie

Published in: Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society (2018)

Overall, there were insufficient data to confirm the blinding effects of these skin-contact PADs as each device was associated with limitations that warrant further design improvements.

Keyphrases

systematic review
meta analyses
electronic health record
soft tissue
big data
randomized controlled trial
clinical trial
phase iii
wound healing
double blind
open label