Talk:Shang reviews of homeopathy

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 Definition:  Major meta-analyses of the efficacy of homeopathy, using new methods, performed for the government of Switzerland [d] [e]
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 Subgroup categories:  Complementary and alternative medicine and Pseudoscience
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Impact of study

The study has been highly cited; by 2011, it had received more than 200 citations recorded in the ISI Web of Knowledge, but mostly in articles specifically discussing homeopathy and mostly in the CAM literature. The generalised implications have been explicitly picked up by a few, e.g. Finckh A, Tramer MR (2010)Osteoarthritis. (Small studies overestimate the benefit of therapies for OA Nature Rev Rheumatol 6:617-618 a meta-epidemiological study has revealed that the inclusion of small studies in meta-analyses of osteoarthritis interventions could lead to an overestimation of the benefit of these interventions. Does this mean meta-analyses should be restricted to trials with large sample sizes?)

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