@article{4a40e577f0ad43818fe295e37a9ce817,
title = "Evidence on acupuncture therapies is underused in clinical practice and health policy",
abstract = "Nenggui Xu and colleagues call for more effective evidence dissemination of and research into promising acupuncture therapies ",
keywords = "Acupuncture therapies",
author = "Liming Lu and Yuqing Zhang and Xiaorong Tang and Shuqi Ge and Hao Wen and Jingchun Zeng and Lai Wang and Zhao Zeng and Gabriel Rada and Camila {\'A}vila and Camilo Vergara and Yuyuan Tang and Peiming Zhang and Rouhao Chen and Yu Dong and Xiaojing Wei and Wen Luo and Lin Wang and Gordon Guyatt and Chunzhi Tang and Nenggui Xu",
note = "Funding Information: Promising acupuncture therapies (large effect supported by low certainty evi dence) represent potentially fruitful future clinical research targets, and thus require further investigation and research funding support. The overview of systematic reviews found that in 33 outcomes for 22 conditions, acupuncture showed a promising effect.9 Existing funding and research endeavours in these areas have, however, increased little in the past decade. Funding Information: In the US—one of the most science and technology focused countries—we looked at the underuse of existing systematic reviews for funding opportunities. In the past decade, among all acupuncture projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, four targeted opioid use disorders, with $1.09m of funding, which accounted for only 3.1% of the National Institutes of Health acupuncture funding. Depressive disorders and migraine received no funding.31 Even though acupuncture therapies have shown large effects supported by low certainty evidence for all three of these prevalent and high burden diseases, they received limited funding for further investigation.9 Funding Information: BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare that the study was supported by: the Innovation Team and Talents Cultivation Program of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ZYYCXTD-C-202004); the special project of “Lingnan Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine” within the 2019 Guangdong Provincial Research and Development Program (2020B1111100008); the Project of First Class Universities and High-level Dual Discipline for Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine; and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82174527). The funders had no influence on study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, or manuscript preparation. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} ",
year = "2022",
month = feb,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1136/bmj-2021-067475",
language = "English",
volume = "376",
journal = "The BMJ",
issn = "0959-8146",
publisher = "BMJ Publishing Group",
}
