Published in Evid Based Complement Alternat Med on November 14, 2011
Retracted The Effects of Positive or Neutral Communication during Acupuncture for Relaxing Effects: A Sham-Controlled Randomized Trial. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med (2016) 1.39
Factors contributing to therapeutic effects evaluated in acupuncture clinical trials. Trials (2012) 0.96
Specifying the nonspecific components of acupuncture analgesia. Pain (2013) 0.90
Patients' preconceptions of acupuncture: a qualitative study exploring the decisions patients make when seeking acupuncture. BMC Complement Altern Med (2013) 0.89
Expectancy in real and sham electroacupuncture: does believing make it so? J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr (2014) 0.88
Psychological covariates of longitudinal changes in back-related disability in patients undergoing acupuncture. Clin J Pain (2015) 0.87
An innovative acupuncture treatment for primary dysmenorrhea: a randomized, crossover pilot study. Altern Ther Health Med (2014) 0.84
Real world research: a complementary method to establish the effectiveness of acupuncture. BMC Complement Altern Med (2015) 0.84
New perspectives on patient expectations of treatment outcomes: results from qualitative interviews with patients seeking complementary and alternative medicine treatments for chronic low back pain. BMC Complement Altern Med (2014) 0.83
A qualitative study of changes in expectations over time among patients with chronic low back pain seeking four CAM therapies. BMC Complement Altern Med (2015) 0.79
Attitudes and barriers towards participation in an acupuncture trial among breast cancer patients: a survey study. BMC Complement Altern Med (2014) 0.78
Patient expectations of acupuncture in pregnancy. Glob Adv Health Med (2014) 0.75
Does acupuncture reduce the risk of acute myocardial infarction? Integr Med Res (2016) 0.75
Electroacupuncture and splinting versus splinting alone to treat carpal tunnel syndrome: a randomized controlled trial. CMAJ (2016) 0.75
Reduced Need for Rescue Antiemetics and Improved Capacity to Eat in Patients Receiving Acupuncture Compared to Patients Receiving Sham Acupuncture or Standard Care during Radiotherapy. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med (2017) 0.75
Non-specific mechanisms in orthodox and CAM management of low back pain (MOCAM): theoretical framework and protocol for a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open (2016) 0.75
Using psychological theory and qualitative methods to develop a new evidence-based website about acupuncture for back pain. Eur J Integr Med (2016) 0.75
The effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for poor semen quality in infertile males: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Asian J Androl (2014) 0.75
Prior experience with a pain stimulus as a predictor of placebo analgesia. J Behav Med (2014) 0.75
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. PLoS Med (2009) 65.36
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The hazards of scoring the quality of clinical trials for meta-analysis. JAMA (1999) 17.00
Dichotomizing continuous predictors in multiple regression: a bad idea. Stat Med (2006) 8.25
German Acupuncture Trials (GERAC) for chronic low back pain: randomized, multicenter, blinded, parallel-group trial with 3 groups. Arch Intern Med (2007) 7.21
Invited commentary: a critical look at some popular meta-analytic methods. Am J Epidemiol (1994) 6.01
Biological, clinical, and ethical advances of placebo effects. Lancet (2010) 5.36
The cost of dichotomising continuous variables. BMJ (2006) 5.12
A randomized trial comparing acupuncture, simulated acupuncture, and usual care for chronic low back pain. Arch Intern Med (2009) 4.96
The impact of patient expectations on outcomes in four randomized controlled trials of acupuncture in patients with chronic pain. Pain (2007) 4.18
The placebo effect: dissolving the expectancy versus conditioning debate. Psychol Bull (2004) 3.45
Neurobiological mechanisms of the placebo effect. J Neurosci (2005) 3.41
Characteristic and incidental (placebo) effects in complex interventions such as acupuncture. BMJ (2005) 3.25
Classical conditioning and the placebo effect. Pain (1997) 2.95
Is acupuncture analgesia an expectancy effect? Preliminary evidence based on participants' perceived assignments in two placebo-controlled trials. Eval Health Prof (2005) 2.91
An empirical study of the possible relation of treatment differences to quality scores in controlled randomized clinical trials. Control Clin Trials (1990) 2.71
Conscious expectation and unconscious conditioning in analgesic, motor, and hormonal placebo/nocebo responses. J Neurosci (2003) 2.62
The role of conditioning and verbal expectancy in the placebo response. Pain (1990) 2.41
A treatment trial of acupuncture in IBS patients. Am J Gastroenterol (2009) 2.41
A randomized controlled trial of acupuncture for osteoarthritis of the knee: effects of patient-provider communication. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) (2010) 2.09
Are minimal, superficial or sham acupuncture procedures acceptable as inert placebo controls? Acupunct Med (2006) 2.07
Whole systems research: a discipline for studying complementary and alternative medicine. Altern Ther Health Med (2003) 2.05
Moffet on the similarity of response to "active" and "sham" acupuncture. J Altern Complement Med (2009) 2.04
Response expectancies in placebo analgesia and their clinical relevance. Pain (2001) 1.91
Expectancy and treatment interactions: a dissociation between acupuncture analgesia and expectancy evoked placebo analgesia. Neuroimage (2008) 1.43
Conditioned placebo responses. J Pers Soc Psychol (1985) 1.38
Conditioned response models of placebo phenomena: further support. Pain (1989) 1.37
An fMRI study on the interaction and dissociation between expectation of pain relief and acupuncture treatment. Neuroimage (2009) 1.32
Placebo effect in the acute treatment of migraine: subcutaneous placebos are better than oral placebos. J Neurol (2000) 1.26
Beyond needling--therapeutic processes in acupuncture care: a qualitative study nested within a low-back pain trial. J Altern Complement Med (2006) 1.26
Acupuncture outcomes, expectations, patient-provider relationship, and the placebo effect: implications for health promotion. Am J Public Health (2002) 1.23
Treatment expectations and preferences as predictors of outcome of acupuncture for chronic back pain. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) (2010) 1.22
Acupuncture for chronic shoulder pain. An experimental study with attention to the role of placebo and hypnotic susceptibility. Ann Intern Med (1976) 1.19
Self-help advice as a process integral to traditional acupuncture care: implications for trial design. Complement Ther Med (2008) 1.15
The Emperors sham - wrong assumption that sham needling is sham. Acupunct Med (2008) 1.14
Is placebo acupuncture what it is intended to be? Evid Based Complement Alternat Med (2011) 1.14
Imaging the functional connectivity of the Periaqueductal Gray during genuine and sham electroacupuncture treatment. Mol Pain (2010) 1.13
Participant expectancies in double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trials: potential limitations to trial validity. Clin Trials (2010) 1.13
The impact of placebo, psychopathology, and expectations on the response to acupuncture needling in patients with chronic low back pain. J Pain (2010) 1.07
Interpretive bias in acupuncture research?: A case study. Eval Health Prof (2009) 1.07
Placebo effect in the treatment of duodenal ulcer. Br J Clin Pharmacol (1999) 1.01
The effect of placebo administration on the first-night effect in healthy young volunteers. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry (2007) 0.91
The relationship between patient and practitioner expectations and preferences and clinical outcomes in a trial of exercise and acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis. Eur J Pain (2009) 0.90
Efficacy of acupunture in patients with chronic neck pain--a randomised, sham controlled trial. Acupunct Electrother Res (2010) 0.89
Acupuncture in angina pectoris: do psycho-social and neurophysiological factors relate to the effect? Acupunct Electrother Res (1996) 0.84
Perceived treatment, feedback, and placebo effects in double-blind RCTs: an experimental analysis. Psychopharmacology (Berl) (2009) 0.82
The impact of psychological factors on placebo responses in a randomized controlled trial comparing sham device to dummy pill. J Eval Clin Pract (2009) 0.81
Psychosocial factors as mediators of acupuncture therapy. J Consult Clin Psychol (1977) 0.81
Subject expectancy and the reduction of cold pressor pain with acupuncture and placebo acupuncture. Psychosom Med (1979) 0.81
Acupuncture induces a pro-inflammatory immune response intensified by a conditioning-expectation effect. Forsch Komplementmed (2010) 0.77
The use of mini-CEX in UK foundation training six years following its introduction: lessons still to be learned and the benefit of formal teaching regarding its utility. Med Teach (2013) 1.46
Community pharmacists in Australia: barriers to information provision on complementary and alternative medicines. Pharm World Sci (2006) 1.31
The anti-inflammatory effects of acupuncture and their relevance to allergic rhinitis: a narrative review and proposed model. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med (2013) 0.97
Use of Chinese medicine by cancer patients: a review of surveys. Chin Med (2011) 0.95
Development of a fertility acupuncture protocol: defining an acupuncture treatment protocol to support and treat women experiencing conception delays. J Altern Complement Med (2011) 0.89
Building resilience: a preliminary exploration of women's perceptions of the use of acupuncture as an adjunct to In Vitro Fertilisation. BMC Complement Altern Med (2009) 0.85
"Well I'm safe because…" - acupuncturists managing conflicting treatment recommendations when treating threatened miscarriage: a mixed-methods study. J Altern Complement Med (2014) 0.84
Use of complementary therapies in pregnancy: the perceptions of obstetricians and midwives in South Australia. Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol (2004) 0.83
Moxibustion for cephalic version: a feasibility randomised controlled trial. BMC Complement Altern Med (2011) 0.82
Effect of acute acupuncture treatment on exercise performance and postexercise recovery: a systematic review. J Altern Complement Med (2012) 0.82
Acupuncture as a therapeutic treatment option for threatened miscarriage. BMC Complement Altern Med (2012) 0.81
Cephalic version by moxibustion for breech presentation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2012) 0.80
Complementary therapies for acne vulgaris. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2015) 0.76
Patients with anorexia nervosa receiving acupuncture or acupressure; their view of the therapeutic encounter. Complement Ther Med (2013) 0.76
Moxibustion for breech presentation: significant new evidence. Acupunct Med (2013) 0.75
A comparison of decision-making processes for conventional and complementary medicine in cancer patients. Complement Ther Clin Pract (2012) 0.75