Details of HTA journal title
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Research type: |
Primary Research (e.g. trial) |
Title (lead author) etc: |
Acupuncture of chronic headache disorders in primary care: randomised controlled trial and economic analysis (Vickers) 50 pages, Volume 8, number 48 |
DOI |
10.3310/hta8480 |
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Project ref: |
96/40/15 |
Original project title: |
Acupuncture for migraine and headache in primary care: a pragmatic, randomised trial |
Chief Investigator: |
Dr Andrew Vickers, Associate Attending Research Methodologist, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre |
Start Date: |
October 1998 |
Date of publication in HTA journal series |
November 2004 |
Cost: |
£161,532 |
MeSH* index primary terms: |
MIGRAINE Q-therapy; HEADACHE Q-therapy; ACUPUNCTURE (* = Medical Subject Headings) |
MeSH* index secondary terms: |
HUMAN; CLINICAL-TRIAL; RANDOMIZED-CONTROLLED-TRIAL; PAIN-MEASUREMENT; TREATMENT-OUTCOME (* = Medical Subject Headings) |
ISRCTN* number: | ISRCTN 96537534 (*International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number) URL of this project on the Controlled Trials Website: http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN96537534 |
NRR* number, if applicable: |
N0484008750 (*National Research Register) The National Research Register was a public database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). It is now an archive of projects from early 2000 to September 2007. Search the NRR archive. |
Project Protocol: |
Project protocol not available |
Printed copies of this title despatched: |
121 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month) |
Downloads/Views of electronic version from website: |
14559 (Figures are cumulative.) Last updated 27th July 2010. |
URL of this page: |
http://www.hta.ac.uk/1083 |
Outputs from this project
- Vickers, A; Rees, R; Zollman, C; Smith, C; Ellis, N. Acupuncture for migraine and headache in primary care: a protocol for a pragmatic, randomized trial. Complementary Therapies in Medicine Issue: 7, Pages: 3-18.
- McCarney, R; Vickers, A; Fisher, P; van, Haselen R. Accruing large numbers of patients in primary care trials by retrospective recruitment methods. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 10; 2: 63-68.
- Vickers, J; Vickers, D; McCarney, R. Use of a single global assessment to reduce missing data in a long-term clinical trial. Controlled Clinical Trials 24(6) 731-5.
- Wonderling, D; Vickers, AJ; Grieve, R; McCarney, R. Cost effectiveness analysis of a randomised trial of acupuncture for chronic headache in primary care. BMJ doi:10.1136/bmj.38033.896505.EB.
- Vickers, AJ; Rees, RW; Zollman, CE; McCarney, R; Smith, C; Ellis, N; Fisher, P; Van, Haselen R. Acupuncture for chronic headache in primary care: a large, pragmatic, randomised trial. BMJ Vol 328 No 7442 744-741 27 March 2004.
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