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Jeanette Ezzo, PhD; Brian M. Berman, MD; Andrew J. Vickers, MA; Klaus Linde, MD

JAMA. 1998;280:1628-1630.

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INTRODUCTION

EVERY YEAR, millions of US consumers spend billions of dollars on alternative and complementary medical treatments.¹ A similar trend exists in the United Kingdom and Australia.^2-4 As people increasingly use these treatments, questions arise from consumers, clinicians, payers, and policymakers as to the effectiveness of these interventions.

The Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field

To meet the increasing demand for evidence-based complementary medicine (CM), a CM Field, funded by the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine, was established within the Cochrane Collaboration⁵ in 1996. The goal of the Cochrane Collaboration is to produce, maintain, and disseminate systematic reviews on all topics in health care. The CM Field focuses on CM topics. Two major products of the Cochrane Collaboration are a database of systematic reviews and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Registry, the largest registry of its kind.⁶ Both databases are updated quarterly . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Search Strategies to Retrieve Randomized Trials of CM

Publication Bias

Language Bias

Quality Assessment of RCTs

Reviews Completed by the CM Field

Conclusions

From the Complementary Medicine Program, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore (Drs Ezzo and Berman); Research Council for Complementary Medicine, London, England (Mr Vickers); and Center for Complementary Medicine Research, Technical University, Munich, Germany (Dr Linde).

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