acupuncture research strategies for clinical evaluation workshop report, york, july 5–8, 2006针灸临床评价研究策略研讨会报告,纽约,2006年7月5 - 8日.pdfVIP

Advance Access Publication 23 April 2007 eCAM 2008;5(2)237–240 doi:10.1093/ecam/nem028 Meeting Report Acupuncture Research: Strategies for Clinical Evaluation: Workshop Report, York, July 5–8, 2006 Val Hopwood1 and Hugh MacPherson2 1Honorary Research Fellow, Complementary Medicine Research Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 5S, UK and 2Senior Research Fellow in Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK This report summarizes a ground-breaking workshop on the strategic direction of acupuncture research which was held in York in early July 2006. Three days were spent discussing the history, the philosophy and the practicalities of researching acupuncture. Attending the workshop were an international group of researchers with varied backgrounds, including acupuncturists, physicians, physiotherapists, sociologists and anthropologists. Supported by the Medical Research Council’s Health Services Research Collaboration, Elsevier and others, this workshop was an opportunity to brainstorm the issues and to the concerns in the field and set out directions for research that would tackle some of the major challenges facing the acupuncture research community. Keywords: acupuncture – complex interventions – non-specific effects – research Introduction writing