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Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (2002) 3, 10–11 © 2002, Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
2. Designing clinical research to evaluatetraditional East Asian systems of medicine.
3. Identifying and controlling for the non-specificeffects of acupuncture.
4. Assessing strengths and weaknesses ofsystematic reviews of acupuncture.
5. Identifying research questions relevant to theacupuncture community.
Draft guidelines for the reporting of acupunctureclinical trials, the STRICTA guidelines, were alsopresented, modified and approved during the work-shop. A final work-in-progress version of STRICTA,that has been fine-tuned and approved by the editorsof five journals that have been major publishers ofclinical trials of acupuncture, also appears in thisissue of Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medi-cine and will appear in current issues of the otherfour journals.
The Exeter Workshop was held under the aus-pices of the Acupuncture Research Resource Center(UK) in collaboration with The Stichting for theStudy of Traditional East Asian Medicine (Nether-lands) and the Society for Acupuncture Research(USA). Other institutional sponsors of the Workshopwere Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Klass. Akupunktur u.TCM e.V. (Germany), British Acupuncture Council
International workshop onacupuncture researchmethodology: introductionto consensus reports onworkshop topics
Stephen Birch, Richard Hammerschlag,George Lewith
Stephen Birch, Stichting for the Study of Traditional East Asian Medicine,Amsterdam,The Netherlands.Richard Hammerschlag,Oregon College of OrientalMedicine, Portland, OR,USA.George Lewith,University of Southampton,School of Medicine,Southampton, UK.
Correspondence to:Stephen Birch, PhD LAc(USA),The Stichting for theStudy of Traditional East Asian Medicine, W.G. Plein 330, 1054 SG Amsterdam,The Netherlands.Tel: 31(0)20 6895145;Fax: 31(0)20 689 1328;E-mail:[email protected]
In a novel approach to consensus building on keyissues in acupuncture research methodology, aninternational group of acupuncture researchers fromseven countries on four continents were invited to aworkshop at Exeter University, UK on July 2–4,2001. Arriving from Australia, Canada, England,Holland, Italy, Japan and the United States, theresearchers met to present papers and find commonground on five pre-selected topic areas (listedbelow). The first two days were devoted to topic-based plenary and breakout sessions to hear anddiscuss papers presented by workshop attendees. Onthe third morning consensus summaries were pre-pared for presentation to a public audience later thatafternoon. The following series of papers representsummaries of the consensus positions arrived at foreach of the five topic areas. The present issue ofClinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine will bewidely distributed to the acupuncture research com-munity as a means of stimulating further discussion.Individual papers on each topic will appear in sub-sequent issues of this journal.
The topics presented to workshop participantswere:
1. Matching research design to research questionin clinical trials of acupuncture.
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(UK), Churchill Livingstone/Harcourt PublishersLtd (UK), Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (USA), Redwing BookCompany (USA), University of Technology Sydney(Australia), and the All Japan Acupuncture andMoxibustion Society (Japan). Individual supporterswere Stephen Birch, Charlotte Furth, Efrem Korngold, Angela Kozlowski and James Ramholz.
Primary Participants in the workshop were:Stephen Birch (Stichting for Traditional East AsianMedicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), MarkBovey (Acupuncture Research Resource Centre,University of Exeter, UK), Richard Hammerschlag(Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, Portland,USA), Val Hopwood (Acupuncture Association ofChartered Physiotherapists, Coventry, UK), Kenji
Kawakita (Meiji University of Oriental Medicine,Kyoto, Japan), Lixing Lao (University of Maryland,Baltimore, USA), George Lewith (University ofSouthampton, UK), Hugh MacPherson (Foundationfor Traditional Chinese Medicine, York, UK), MarcoRomoli (Federazione Italiana Società di Agopun-tura, Prato, Italy), Karen Sherman (Center for HealthStudies, Seattle, USA), Kien Trinh (McMaster Uni-versity, Hamilton, Canada), Adrian White (Univer-sity of Exeter, UK), Christopher Zaslawski(University of Technology, Sydney, Australia).
Additional participants were: Sarah Budd (Uni-versity of Exeter, UK), Simon Mills (University ofExeter, UK), Sonya Pancucci (KST Health Services,Hamilton, Canada).
