Standards for reporting interventions in controlled trials of acupuncture: the STRICTA recommendations

Acupuncture treatment and control group interventions in parallel-group randomized trials of acupuncture are not always precisely reported. In an attempt to improve standards, an international group of experienced acupuncturists and researchers devised a set of recommendations, designating them STRICTA: ST andards for R eporting I nterventions in C ontrolled T rials of A cupuncture. In a further consensus-building round, the editors of several …