About the Authors
- Hugh MacPherson
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* E-mail: hugh.macpherson@york.ac.uk
Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, United Kingdom
- Emily Vertosick
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Affiliation Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- George Lewith
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Primary Care and Population Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Klaus Linde
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Affiliation Institute of General Practice, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Karen J. Sherman
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Affiliation Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Claudia M. Witt
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Affiliations Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
- Andrew J. Vickers
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Affiliation Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- on behalf of the Acupuncture Trialists' Collaboration
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¶Membership of the Acupuncture Trialists' Collaboration is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Analyzed the data: AV EV. Wrote the paper: HM AV EV. Co-ordinated the development and conduct of the study: HM. Designed the study: AV. Gave input on the design of the study: HM CW GL KL KS. Wrote first draft of the Methods and Results sections: AV EV. Wrote first draft of the manuscript as a whole: HM. Gave comments on early drafts and approved the final version of the manuscript: HM EV GL KL KS CW AV. Had full access to all of the data in the study, takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis: AV.