About the Authors

Hugh MacPherson

hugh.macpherson@york.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Alexandra C. Maschino

Affiliation Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

George Lewith

Affiliation University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Nadine E. Foster

Affiliation Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

Claudia Witt

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics,Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

Andrew J. Vickers

Affiliation Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

on behalf of the Acupuncture Trialists' Collaboration

Members of the Acupuncture Trialists’ Collaboration are listed in the acknowledgements.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM AM GL CW AV. Analyzed the data: AM AV. Wrote the manuscript: HM AM GL NF CW AV.