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Articles concluding DS are Unsafe or Ineffective |
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| Characteristics |
N Unsafe/All DS articles (%) |
Among Clinical or Cohort Trials |
Among Editorials |
Among Reviews |
N Unsafe/TOTAL MAJOR ARTICLES |
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| UNSAFE |
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| Most Pharmads |
5/35 (14) |
0/0 (0) |
1/1 (100) |
1/2 (50) |
2/3 (67)* |
| Middle Pharmads |
16/142 (11) |
1/30 (3) |
0/15 (0) |
0/2 (0) |
1/47 (7) |
| Fewest Pharmads |
3/77 (4) |
0/14 (0) |
1/11 (9) |
0/3 (0) |
1/27 (4) |
| CAM Journals |
1/88 (1) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0/19 (0) |
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| INEFFECTIVE |
N Ineffective/All DS articles (%) |
N Ineffective/TOTAL MAJOR ARTICLES |
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| Most Pharmads |
12/35 (34) |
0/0 |
1/2 (50) |
0/2 (0) |
1/4 (25) |
| Middle Pharmads |
35/142 (25) |
8/31 (26) |
5/15 (33) |
1/2 (50) |
14/47 (30) |
| Fewest Pharmads |
21/77 (27) |
2/14 (14) |
3/11 (27) |
0/3 (0) |
5/27 (19) |
| CAM Journals |
11/88 (13) |
1/11 (9) |
0/2 (0) |
1/6 (17) |
2/19 (11) |
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* General medical journals with the most pharmads published a significantly higher percentage of major articles concluding that DS were unsafe than the journals with middle or fewest pharmads or the CAM journals (P < 0.005). The differences in rates of articles concluding that DS were ineffective among the different pharmad groups were not statistically significant. | |||||
Kemper and Hood BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008 8:11 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-8-11 |
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