Reflections on Undertaking the Cochrane Review: Acupuncture for Treating Fibromyalgia

摘要

As part or our assessment process, we used a tool called Standards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA)J to evaluate the quality of our included papers. STRICTA arc guidelines for journals and .i.urhors to use when publishing their trials on acupuncture so others can reproduce them exactly. We created a grading system to improve the useability of STRICTA and give value to assessments. Unfortunately time was lost contacting authors to gain sufficient details to be able to fully assess the included trials. Further evaluation required us to gauge the Risk of Bias' in our included papers. After answering a number of questions, the Cochrane program generated a graph and a table that clearly showed where the risk of bias was in each paper.