Abstract
The aim of this article is to provide a preliminary estimate of how much CAM is evidence-based. For this purpose, I calculated the percentage of 685 treatment/condition pairings evaluated in the "Desktop Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine" which are supported by sound data. The resulting figure was 7.4.% For a range of reasons, it might be a gross over-estimate. Further investigations into this subject are required to arrive at more representative figures. Copyright © 2011 Edzard Ernst.
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Ernst, E. (2011). How much of CAM is based on research evidence? Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1093/ecam/nep044
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