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LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2001

Andrew Vickers
Andrew Vickers
Affiliation:
Integrative Medicine Memorial Sloan-kettering Cancer Center 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021 USA
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Abstract

The literature search for Bloom et al.'s review (Bloom BS, Retbi A, Dahan S, Jonsson E. Evaluation of randomized controlled trials on complementary and alternative medicine. IJTAHC, 2000;16:13–21) adopted and inadequate search strategy (an appropriate search of the Cochrane library finds nearly four times as many trials), excluded foreign languages, in which many CAM trials are published, and examined only blinded studies, when many CAM techniques (chiropractic, yoga) and associated outcomes (back pain, anxiety) are difficult to blind. The authors then complain about a lack of data. Is there such a term as “Procrustean” review?

Type
Research Article
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 16 , Issue 03 , July 2000 , pp. 944
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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