Characteristics of Acupuncture Treatment Associated with Outcome: An Individual Patient Meta-Analysis of 17,922 Patients with Chronic Pain in Randomised Controlled Trials

• Hugh MacPherson ,

  * E-mail: hugh.macpherson@york.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, United Kingdom

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• Alexandra C. Maschino,

  Affiliation Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• George Lewith,

  Affiliation University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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• Nadine E. Foster,

  Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

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• Claudia Witt,

  Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics,Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

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• Andrew J. Vickers,

  Affiliation Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• on behalf of the Acupuncture Trialists' Collaboration

  ¶Members of the Acupuncture Trialists’ Collaboration are listed in the acknowledgements.

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