Quoted message said:Subject: Re: Randomized Controlled Trials: CAM
From: "Peter Moran" [email hidden]
Date: 12/18/2003 1:50 AM Central Standard Time
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<[email hidden]>"Jan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=151673
Randomized controlled trials in pediatric complementary and alternative
medicine: Where can they be found?
Margaret Sampson,1 Kaitryn Campbell,2 Isola Ajiferuke,3 and David Moher1,41Chalmers Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research
Institute, Canada 2The Ottawa Hospital, Canada 3Faculty of Information and
Media Studies, The University of Western Ontario, Canada 4Department of
Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, CanadaCorresponding author.
Margaret Sampson: [email hidden]; Kaitryn Campbell:
[email hidden]; Isola Ajiferuke: [email hidden];
David Moher: [email hidden]Received May 28, 2002; Accepted February 14, 2003; Published February 14,
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AbstractBackground
The safety and effectiveness of CAM interventions are of great relevance
toQuoted message said:pediatric health care providers. The objective of this study is to
identifyQuoted message said:sources of reported randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the field of
pediatric complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).Methods
Reports of RCTs were identified by searching Medline and 12 additional
bibliographic databases and by reviewing the reference lists of previously
identified pediatric CAM systematic reviews.Results
We identified 908 reports of RCTs that included children under 18 and
investigated a CAM therapy. Since 1965, there has been a steady growth in
theQuoted message said:number of these trials that are being published. The four journals that
published the most reported RCTs are The American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition, Pediatrics, Journal of Pediatrics, and Lancet. Medline, CAB
Health,Quoted message said:and Embase were the best database sources for identifying these studies;
theyQuoted message said:indexed 93.2%, 58.4% and 42.2 % respectively of the journals publishing
reportsQuoted message said:of pediatric CAM RCTs.
Somewhat dents the lie that you cannot get CAM methods tested, doesn't it?
Peter Moran
It certainly dents the lie that none of alternative has been proven, doest't
it?
Perhaps the debunkers have no interest in reading CAM's RTC.
At any rate it appears to be informative information. Doing a bit of research
to see what is being done is a step in the right direction.
Jan