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Effects of acupuncture on rates of pregnancy and live birth among women undergoing in vitro fertilisation: systematic review and meta-analysisEric Manheimer
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 2200 Kernan Drive, Kernan Hospital Mansion, Baltimore, MD 21207, USA
BMJ 336:545-9. 2008..To evaluate whether acupuncture improves rates of pregnancy and live birth when used as an adjuvant treatment to embryo transfer in women undergoing in vitro fertilisation...
Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: systematic review and meta-analysisEric Manheimer
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21201, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 107:835-47; quiz 848. 2012..We conducted a new systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to estimate the effects of acupuncture for treating IBS...
Acupuncture for treatment of irritable bowel syndromeEric Manheimer
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Cochrane Database Syst Rev 5:CD005111. 2012..Evidence-based treatment guidelines have been unable to provide guidance on the effects of acupuncture for IBS because the only previous systematic review included only small, heterogeneous and methodologically unsound trials...
An evaluation of the completeness of safety reporting in reports of complementary and alternative medicine trialsLucy Ann Turner
Ottawa Methods Centre, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa Hospital, Ontario, Canada
BMC Complement Altern Med 11:67. 2011..The objectives of this study are to assess the quality of safety reporting in CAM RCTs; to explore the influence of different trial characteristics on the quality of safety reporting...
Harpgophytum procumbens for osteoarthritis and low back pain: a systematic reviewJoel J Gagnier
Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Canada
BMC Complement Altern Med 4:13. 2004..The objective of this review is to determine the effectiveness of Harpagophytum procumbens preparations in the treatment of various forms of musculoskeletal pain...
Selecting a control for in vitro fertilization and acupuncture randomized controlled trials (RCTs): how sham controls may unnecessarily complicate the RCT evidence baseEric Manheimer
Center for Integrative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Fertil Steril 95:2456-61. 2011....
Published reports of acupuncture trials showed important limitationsEric Manheimer
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, Kernan Hospital Mansion, Baltimore, MD 21207, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 59:107-13. 2006..We evaluated whether the description of methods in the published reports is an accurate and complete reflection of study procedures used...
The 13th International Cochrane Colloquium in Melbourne: an invitation for complementary and alternative medicine researchers and consumersEric Manheimer
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21207, USA
J Altern Complement Med 11:733-4. 2005
Producing and disseminating systematic reviews: a summary of the CAM-related work presented at the 13th international Cochrane ColloquiumEric Manheimer
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 2200 Kernan Drive, Kernan Hospital Mansion, Baltimore, MD 21207, USA
J Altern Complement Med 12:193-6. 2006..A summary of each of these is presented...
NCCAM support for the Cochrane Collaboration CAM FieldEric Manheimer
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Complement Ther Med 11:268-71. 2003..In May 2003, the Center was awarded a large 4-year research grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) to support and extend this important work...
Use and assessment of complementary and alternative therapies by intravenous drug usersEric Manheimer
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21207, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 29:401-13. 2003..There was a high level of self-perceived effectiveness of CAM therapies (4.1 on a scale of 1-5), and CAM users were likely to use CAM for reasons related to their addiction...
Evidence from the Cochrane Collaboration for Traditional Chinese Medicine therapiesEric Manheimer
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21207, USA
J Altern Complement Med 15:1001-14. 2009..Our objective was to review the evidence base according to Cochrane systematic reviews...
Development and classification of an operational definition of complementary and alternative medicine for the Cochrane collaborationL Susan Wieland
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Altern Ther Health Med 17:50-9. 2011..Although aspects of our operational definition of CAM are open to revision, a standardized definition provides us with an objective, reproducible, and systematic method for defining and classifying CAM therapies...
Meta-analysis: acupuncture for osteoarthritis of the kneeEric Manheimer
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Kernan Hospital Mansion, Baltimore, Maryland 21207, USA
Ann Intern Med 146:868-77. 2007..Knee osteoarthritis is a major cause of pain and functional limitation...
Cochrane for CAM providers: evidence for actionEric Manheimer
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
Altern Ther Health Med 9:110-2. 2003
Adverse events of acupuncture: a systematic review of case reportsShifen Xu
Acupuncture Department, Shanghai Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200071, China Center for Integrative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, East Hall, 520 W Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 2013:581203. 2013..Although the route of infection had changed, infections were still the major complication of acupuncture. Clearly, guidelines such as Clean Needle Technique must be followed in order to minimize acupuncture AEs...
How well do randomized trials inform decision making: systematic review using comparative effectiveness research measures on acupuncture for back painClaudia M Witt
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e32399. 2012....
Meta-analysis: acupuncture for low back painEric Manheimer
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21207, USA
Ann Intern Med 142:651-63. 2005..LIMITATIONS: The quantity and quality of the included trials varied. CONCLUSIONS: Acupuncture effectively relieves chronic low back pain. No evidence suggests that acupuncture is more effective than other active therapies...
Meditative therapies for reducing anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trialsKevin W Chen
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Depress Anxiety 29:545-62. 2012..Although multiple reviews exist on the general health benefits of meditation, no review has focused on the efficacy of meditation for anxiety specifically...
Chinese herbal medicine for severe acute respiratory syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysisJianping Liu
International Health Research Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, United Kingdom
J Altern Complement Med 10:1041-51. 2004..To review randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating the effects of Chinese herbal medicine for treating severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) systematically...
Medicinal herbs for hepatitis C virus infection: a Cochrane hepatobiliary systematic review of randomized trialsJianping Liu
The Cochrane Hepatobiliary Group, Copenhagen Trial Unit, Center for Clinical Intervention Research, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Am J Gastroenterol 98:538-44. 2003..The herbs were associated with adverse events. CONCLUSIONS: There is no firm evidence supporting medicinal herbs for HCV infection, and further randomized trials are justified...
Survey of public information about ongoing clinical trials funded by industry: evaluation of completeness and accessibilityEric Manheimer
Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence based Healthcare, Brown University, 169 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
BMJ 325:528-31. 2002..To evaluate the completeness and accessibility of public information about US clinical trials of drugs in development...
Development of the Cochrane Collaboration's CENTRAL Register of controlled clinical trialsKay Dickersin
New England Cochrane Center
Eval Health Prof 25:38-64. 2002....
