TY - JOUR AU - Ortiz, Miriam AU - Witt, Claudia M. AU - Binting, Sylvia AU - Helmreich, Cornelia AU - Hummelsberger, Josef AU - Pfab, Florian AU - Wullinger, Michael AU - Irnich, Dominik AU - Linde, Klaus AU - Niggemann, Bodo AU - Willich, Stefan N. AU - Brinkhaus, Benno PY - 2014 DA - 2014/04/06 TI - A randomised multicentre trial of acupuncture in patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis – trial intervention including physician and treatment characteristics JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 128 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - In a large randomised trial in patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR), acupuncture was superior compared to sham acupuncture and rescue medication. The aim of this paper is to describe the characteristics of the trial’s participating physicians and to describe the trial intervention in accordance with the STRICTA (Standards for Reporting Interventions in Controlled Trials of Acupuncture) guidelines, to make details of the trial intervention more transparent to researchers and physicians. SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-14-128 DO - 10.1186/1472-6882-14-128 ID - Ortiz2014 ER -