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White, A.R.; Filshie, J.; Cummings, T.M.; International Acupuncture Research Forum (2001). “Clinical trials of acupuncture: consensus recommendations for optimal treatment, sham controls and blinding”. Complementary Therapies in Medicine9 (4): 237–245. doi:10.1054/ctim.2001.0489. PMID12184353.
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Ernst, E et al. (2011). “Acupuncture: Does it alleviate pain and are there serious risks? A review of reviews”. Pain152 (4): 755–64. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2010.11.004. PMID21440191.
Hopton, A. K.; Curnoe, S.; Kanaan, M.; MacPherson, H. (2012). “Acupuncture in practice: mapping the providers, the patients and the settings in a national cross-sectional survey”. BMJ Open2 (1): e000456–e000456. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000456. ISSN2044-6055. "quote=An estimated 4 million acupuncture sessions were provided in 2009 in the UK with approximately two-thirds of this provision outside the National Health Service."