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Conditions and Interventions selected for further study |
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| Condition |
Original N |
N after Exclusions |
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| Asthma |
34 |
31 |
| Colic |
19 |
16 |
| Dermatological conditions (including scars) |
36 |
30 |
| Diarrhea |
75* |
49 |
| Malaria |
21 |
20 |
| Migraine / headache |
19 |
18 |
| Interventions / Treatment modalities Biofeedback |
27 |
22 |
| Chinese Herbal Medicine |
20% |
6 |
| Chiropractic |
7 |
5 |
| Homeopathy |
9 |
6 |
| Massage or holding |
26 |
25 |
| TENS |
8 |
8 |
| Zinc |
45 |
39 |
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* We examined only 49 of 75 diarrhea studies to avoid giving undue weight to this condition. %Many of these were excluded based on language Note: some trials involved both a condition and a treatment chosen (i.e., chiropractic for colic) and so numbers to not total to 251. | ||
Moher et al. BMC Pediatrics 2002 2:2 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-2-2 |
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