Table 1

Conditions and Interventions selected for further study

Condition
Original N
N after Exclusions

     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

* 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