Question · asked by 1 review
Acupuncture vs placebo or sham acupuncture: Patient‐reported pain intensity or pain relief (VAS, NRS or categorical scale)
- Population
- patients with fibromyalgia
- Intervention
- Acupuncture
- Comparison
- placebo or sham acupuncture
- Outcome
- Patient‐reported pain intensity or pain relief (VAS, NRS or categorical scale)
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Acupuncture vs placebo or sham acupuncture Pain up to 1 month after treatment (VAS, NRS, SF‐MPQ, MPI) · patients with fibromyalgia Acupuncture for treating fibromyalgia (2013) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 6 studies · 286 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acupuncture for treating fibromyalgia 2013 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | Not extracted | Not assessed |
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How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.