Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised, Other-than-Placebo Controlled, Trials of Non-Individualised Homeopathic Treatment

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  title={Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised, Other-than-Placebo Controlled, Trials of Non-Individualised Homeopathic Treatment},
  author={Robert T. Mathie and Yvonne Fok and Petter Viksveen and Aaron To and Jonathan R. T. Davidson},
  journal={Homeopathy},
  year={2018},
  volume={108},
  pages={088 - 101},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:73411409}
}
The current data preclude a decisive conclusion about the comparative effectiveness ofNIHT, and the highest intrinsic quality was observed in the equivalence and non-inferiority trials of NIHT.
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