Concerns about the use of verum acupuncture points in sham acupuncture studies for pain conditions: Findings and insights from network meta-analysis

Affiliations

• ¹ KM Science Research Division, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon, Korea.
• ² Department of Oriental Neuropsychiatry, Dong-Eui University College of Korean Medicine, Busan, Korea.
• ³ KM Convergence Research Division, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon, Korea.
• ⁴ Department of Family Medicine & Community Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States.
• ⁵ School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington D.C., United States.
• ⁶ Korean Medicine Clinical Trial Center, Korean Medicine Hospital, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
• ⁷ Kristiania University College, Institute of Health and Training, Oslo, Norway.
• ⁸ Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM), Tromsø, Norway.