Acupuncture for Chronic Pain: Update of an Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis
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An updated individual-patient-data meta-analysis of 39 trials and 20,827 patients found acupuncture superior to sham and no-acupuncture controls across four chronic pain categories, with an effect around 0.2 SD versus sham.