Identifying patients with chronic pain who respond to acupuncture: results from an individual patient data meta-analysis
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The 2020 responder-distribution analysis reused the 39-trial 20,827-person patient-level cohort; its 25 sham-comparison trials/7097-person subset is not an independent replication. Exceptional-responder skew disappeared after prespecified outlier exclusion (p=0.2).