standardization of nomenclature in acupuncture research (sonar)标准化命名的针灸研究(声纳).pdfVIP

Advance Access Publication 24 November 2006 eCAM 2006;4(2)267–270 doi:10.1093/ecam/nel095 Meeting Report Standardization of Nomenclature in Acupuncture Research (SoNAR) 1 2 3 4 Peter White , Brenda Golianu , Chris Zaslawski and Choi Seung-Hoon 1University of Southampton, UK, 2Stanford University, USA, 3University of Technology, Sydney, Australia and 4 Regional Adviser in Traditional Medicine, World Health Organization, Western Pacific Regional Office, Philippines As more clinical acupuncture trials for pain are published, it becomes increasingly difficult to compare and evaluate the merits and shortcomings of such studies. A major contributory factor to this centers on the description of, and the assumptions made about, the control intervention used. In considering an acupuncture control, it is important to evaluate its physiological activity and thus far, this has not been done. A variety of different and sometimes very novel controls have been tried and used in the research setting and the inevitable consequence of this is confusion, particularly when attempting to interpret the results of trials. Researchers and other interested parties such as patients, primary care practitioners, funding agencies etc., searching for evidence in the literature are likely to be misled or confused by such variability. There is therefore a need to define and