Acupuncture in sham device controlled trials may not be as effective as acupuncture in the real world: a preliminary network meta-analysis of studies of acupuncture for hot flashes in menopausal women.
Tae-Hun KimMyeong Soo LeeTerje AlraekStephen BirchPublished in: Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society (2019)
From this preliminary analysis, we found that different types of verum acupuncture may have different effect sizes with respect to the severity of menopausal hot flashes.