Revised STandards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA): Extending the CONSORT Statement

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2010 Jun 15

PMID 20543992

Citations 369

Authors

Hugh MacPherson

Douglas G Altman

Richard Hammerschlag

Li Youping

Wu Taixiang

Adrian White

David Moher

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