Claudia M Witt

..To assess the evidence of published experiments on homeopathic preparations (potencies) that target physical properties (i.e., assumed structural changes in solvents)...

..To evaluate the effectiveness of homoeopathy versus conventional treatment in routine care...

..To investigate the effectiveness of acupuncture in addition to routine care, compared with routine care alone, in the treatment of patients with chronic pain due to osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee or hip...

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..The Acupuncture Trialists' Collaboration, a group of trialists, statisticians and other researchers, was established to synthesize patient-level data from several recently published large, high-quality trials...

..The purpose of this analysis was to identify predictors of symptom improvement in patients receiving anthroposophic treatment for chronic diseases...

..The purpose of this study was to describe clinical outcomes in patients practising eurythmy therapy exercises for chronic diseases...

..Anthroposophic treatment for depression differs from ordinary treatment in the use of artistic and physical therapies and special medication. We studied clinical outcomes of anthroposophic therapy for depression...

..We studied clinical outcomes in children with chronic diseases under anthroposophic treatment in routine outpatient settings...

..The purpose of this analysis was to describe health costs in users of anthroposophic therapies...

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..The purpose of this study was to describe clinical outcomes in patients with chronic diseases treated by anthroposophic physicians after an initial prolonged consultation...

..With this cohort study we aimed to evaluate health status changes under homeopathic treatment in routine care. Here we extend former results, now presenting data of an 8-year follow-up...

..64 (362.19, 369.10)]. The ICER was euro11 657 per QALY gained. According to international cost-effectiveness threshold values, acupuncture is a cost-effective treatment in patients with primary headache...

..26, mental component score d = 0.49), while conventional treatment and health service use were considerably reduced. Conclusions Under classical homeopathic treatment, patients with psoriasis improved in symptoms and QoL...

..Evaluating homeopathic treatment for dysmenorrhea...

..To evaluate the safety of acupuncture in a large number of patients receiving conventional health care and, based on these results, to develop a new medical consent form for acupuncture...

..Acupuncture, supplementary to routine care, was beneficial and, according to international benchmarks, cost-effective. However, because of the study design, it remains unclear whether the effects are acupuncture specific...

..To evaluate the details and effects of an individualized homeopathic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain in usual care...

..The extent to which the observed effects are due to the life-style regulation and placebo or context effects associated with the treatment needs clarification in future explanatory studies...

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..The aim of this study was to identify patients' characteristics that increase or decrease their benefit from acupuncture treatment of chronic pain...

..Further studies with a larger sample size are urgently needed to draw more rigorous conclusions and the results of the ongoing trials will provide us with further information within the next two years...

..047). Adverse effects from acupuncture occur in about 7% of patients and were mainly treated by themselves. When these effects needed treatment by a health professional additional expenses were the consequence...

..Other skills such as the therapeutic relationship, which are difficult to measure, may probably play a more important role and should be taken into consideration...

..The objective of this study was to evaluate treatment details and possible effects of an individualized homeopathic treatment in patients with migraine in usual care...

..One of five children visiting a homoeopathic physician is suffering from atopic eczema...

..The aim of the present study was to evaluate the spectrum of medical complaints treated by a Tibetan doctor in Sikkim and Nepal, and to determine which plants the doctor used most frequently to treat these complaints...

..First publications about QM in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) hospitals are from the 1990s. In order to increase the benefit and to avoid pitfalls, the implementation of a QM system should be planned systematically...

..To investigate the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of acupuncture in patients with dysmenorrhea...

..Details and effects of individualised homeopathic treatment of headache (ICD-9: 784.0) in usual care have not yet been investigated...

..To evaluate the effects of qigong lessons on schoolchildren in terms of their achievements at school, social behavior, and general health...

..Treatment with acupuncture added to routine care in patients with chronic neck pain was associated with improvements in neck pain and disability compared to treatment with routine care alone...

..Homeopathic drugs even with dilutions beyond 10(23) (high potencies) are frequently used, although their working mechanism is still unknown. Curative information preserved in solvent structure is postulated to exert biologic effects...

..The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was euro10,526 (euros) per quality-adjusted life year. Acupuncture plus routine care was associated with marked clinical improvements in these patients and was relatively cost-effective...

..Whether the effects of acupuncture are due primarily to specific or unspecific mechanisms appears to depend on the diagnosis and should be investigated in further studies...

..To investigate trace elements in liquid homeopathic preparations and the influence of container material, storage duration, and potentisation...

..Therefore, CAM therapies were introduced to the Charité University Medical School (Berlin, Germany) reform curriculum...

..To determine in a series of randomized blinded experiments using the REDEM technology whether differences between high homeopathic potencies and similarly potentized solvent can be detected...

..Systematic assessment of the in vitro research on high potency effects...

..We investigated the efficacy of acupuncture compared with minimal acupuncture and with no acupuncture in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee...

..We investigated homeopathic practice in an industrialized country under everyday conditions...

..According to international cost-effectiveness threshold values, acupuncture is a cost-effective treatment strategy in patients with chronic neck pain...

..This study describes the spectrum of diagnoses and therapies observed in children treated in everyday anthroposophic practice...

..Descriptions of the interventions used in acupuncture studies are often incomplete. The aim of this paper is to describe participating trial physicians and interventions in a randomised trial of acupuncture for low back pain...

..This study describes diagnoses and therapies observed in elderly patients treated with anthroposophic medicine in usual care...

..e., to investigate the specific effect of individualized Q-potencies versus placebo and to investigate the effect of different approaches to the homeopathic case history...

..In conclusion, acupuncture was a cost-effective treatment strategy in patients with chronic osteoarthritis pain...

..Randomized controlled trial...

..Therefore, we report on the development of the interventions, the study design and protocols of a randomised controlled multi-centre trial...

..The aims of this study were to evaluate the current opinions on CAM from decision makers at medical schools in three German-speaking countries and the present extent to which it has been integrated...

..Acupuncture is widely used in patients with allergic rhinitis, but the available evidence of its effectiveness is insufficient...

..Our study aims to evaluate how anthroposophic medicine is practised under everyday conditions...

..We report on the study design and protocol of a randomised controlled trial (Acupuncture in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis, ACUSAR) that investigates the efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR)...

..0 +/- 14.9 years). After 3 and 6 months, we found no significant differences for pain, neck pain, disability, and quality of life among the 3 groups...

..Acupuncture is widely used by patients with low back pain, although its effectiveness is unclear. We investigated the efficacy of acupuncture compared with minimal acupuncture and with no acupuncture in patients with chronic low back pain...

..To compare the efficacy of applying hot dry air versus dry air at room temperature to the throat of patients with a newly acquired common cold using a symptom severity score...

..In addition, in Germany naturopaths (German: ‘Heilpraktiker’) are excluded from leading HDP trials. The costs are climbing, and the organizational over heads for a HDP are enormous. Implications for the future are discussed...

..The aim of the study was to determine the spectrum of diagnoses and treatments, as well as to describe the course of illness over time among older patients who chose to receive homeopathic treatment...

..We compared the efficacy of local injections of the homeopathic preparation Disci/Rhus toxicodendron compositum (verum) with placebo injections and with no treatment in patients with chronic low back pain...

..This study protocol adapts the traditional homeopathic drug proving methodology to a modern clinical trial design...

..The aim of this study was to survey key decision makers at German medical schools with regard to their views on CAM and to examine the extent to which CAM has already been integrated in the German medical school system...

..Data on CAM-related ADRs, however, are sparse.Objective was to evaluate the impact of an educational intervention and monitoring programme designed to improve physician reporting of ADRs in a primary care setting...

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..Rhythmical massage therapy is used in 24 countries but has not yet been studied in outpatient settings. The objective was to study clinical outcomes in patients receiving rhythmical massage therapy for chronic diseases...

..03 (1.26-3.26) and 2.35 (1.68-3.30), respectively. Results from the 6-month follow-up were similar. In conclusion, in our trials a significant association was shown between better improvement and higher outcome expectations...

..Anthroposophic art therapy (painting, clay modeling, music, and speech exercises) is used in 28 countries but has not yet been studied in primary care...

..The objective of this analysis was to determine the frequency of patient-reported and physician-assessed adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to AMED in outpatients using AMED for chronic diseases over a 2-year period...

..This paper aims to describe the characteristics of physicians and interventions of a large, multicenter randomized trial of acupuncture for migraine (ART Migraine) in order to enable acupuncturists to assess the study interventions...