Acupuncture Interventions
The Standards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA) guidelines, first published in 2001, are designed to improve the completeness and transparency of reporting interventions in trials of acupuncture. They have been developed in collaboration with the STRICTA Group, CONSORT Group and the Chinese Cochrane Centre. The development process involved consultation with an expert panel that provided feedback on the revised checklist and a subsequent face-to-face meeting in Freiburg in October 2008 of 21 participants, involving members of the STRICTA and CONSORT Groups and Chinese Cochrane Centre.
STRICTA aims to ensure that acupuncture trials are more accurately interpreted and more easily replicated. Since their publication in 2001, the STRICTA guidelines have been endorsed by six leading acupuncture journals (http://www.stricta.info). The revised guidelines have been published by PLoS Medicine.
The STRICTA checklist consists of six items split into 17 subitems. These items include details of the rationale for acupuncture, details of needling, treatment regimen, other components of treatment, the practitioner background and the control or comparator intervention.
The new STRICTA checklist is presented within the framework of the newly revised
CONSORT 2010 checklist and the CONSORT extension for reporting non-pharmacological interventions.
References
- MacPherson H, Altman DG, Hammerschlag R, Youping L, Taixiang W, White A,
Moher D; STRICTA Revision Group. Revised STandards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA): extending the CONSORT statement. PLoS Med. 2010 Jun 8;7(6):e1000261. Full text PDF
- MacPherson H, Altman DG, Hammerschlag R, Youping L, Taixiang W, White A, Moher D; STRICTA Revision Group. Revised STandards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA): extending the CONSORT statement. Acupuncture in Medicine 2010; 28: 83-93. Full text PDF
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