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eCAM Advance Access published online on April 23, 2007
eCAM, doi:10.1093/ecam/nem028
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© 2007 The Author(s).
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Acupuncture Research: Strategies for Clinical Evaluation: Workshop Report, York, July 5–8, 2006

Val Hopwood1 and Hugh MacPherson2

1Honorary Research Fellow, Complementary Medicine Research Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 5S, UK2Senior Research Fellow in Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK

This report summarizes a ground-breaking workshop on the strategic direction of acupuncture research which was held in York in early July 2006. Three days were spent discussing the history, the philosophy and the practicalities of researching acupuncture. Attending the workshop were an international group of researchers with varied backgrounds, including acupuncturists, physicians, physiotherapists, sociologists and anthropologists. Supported by the Medical Research Council's Health Services Research Collaboration, Elsevier and others, this workshop was an opportunity to brainstorm the issues and to the concerns in the field and set out directions for research that would tackle some of the major challenges facing the acupuncture research community.

Keywords: acupuncture – complex interventions – non-specific effects – research

For reprints and all correspondence: Val Hopwood, University of Southampton, Complementary Medicine Research Unit, Primary Medical Care, Aldermoor Health Centre, Aldermoor Close, Southampton, SO16 5ST. Tel: +44 (0)23 8024 1073; Fax: +44 (0)23 8070 1125; E-mail: val.hopwoodaacp{at}btinternet.com

Received January 6, 2007; accepted January 24, 2007


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