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Acupuncture for Aromatase Inhibitor–Related Joint Pain Among Breast Cancer Patients

Acupuncture for Aromatase Inhibitor–Related Joint Pain Among Breast Cancer Patients Letters Future studies should evaluate changes in student demograph- COMMENT & RESPONSE ics at individual schools. Institutions that successfully imple- Acupuncture for Aromatase Inhibitor–Related Joint mented programs to adhere to accreditation standards could Pain Among Breast Cancer Patients serve as models for further improving physician diversity. To the Editor Dr Hershman and colleagues conducted a ran- domized clinical trial (RCT) of acupuncture’s efficacy in reduc- Dowin H. Boatright, MD, MBA, MHS ing aromatase inhibitor–related joint pain among breast can- Elizabeth A. Samuels, MD, MPH, MHS cer survivors compared with sham acupuncture and waitlist Laura Cramer, PhD, ScM control. They concluded that “the study results rejected the null Jeremiah Cross, BS hypothesis that true acupuncture generated the same out- Mayur Desai, PhD, MPH comes as sham acupuncture and waitlist control, although the Darin Latimore, MD magnitude of the effect did not achieve the prespecified differ- Cary P. Gross, MD, MPH ence of 2 points,” having selected a 2-point difference as clini- cally important. However, the difference of 2 points or 30% was Author Affiliations: Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut (Boatright); Department of Emergency never meant to be applied to between-group differences, but Medicine, Alpert http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

Acupuncture for Aromatase Inhibitor–Related Joint Pain Among Breast Cancer Patients

Mao, Jun J.; Farrar, John T.
JAMA , Volume 320 (21) – Dec 4, 2018
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American Medical Association
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0098-7484
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10.1001/jama.2018.16736
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Abstract

Letters Future studies should evaluate changes in student demograph- COMMENT & RESPONSE ics at individual schools. Institutions that successfully imple- Acupuncture for Aromatase Inhibitor–Related Joint mented programs to adhere to accreditation standards could Pain Among Breast Cancer Patients serve as models for further improving physician diversity. To the Editor Dr Hershman and colleagues conducted a ran- domized clinical trial (RCT) of acupuncture’s efficacy in reduc- Dowin H. Boatright, MD, MBA, MHS ing aromatase inhibitor–related joint pain among breast can- Elizabeth A. Samuels, MD, MPH, MHS cer survivors compared with sham acupuncture and waitlist Laura Cramer, PhD, ScM control. They concluded that “the study results rejected the null Jeremiah Cross, BS hypothesis that true acupuncture generated the same out- Mayur Desai, PhD, MPH comes as sham acupuncture and waitlist control, although the Darin Latimore, MD magnitude of the effect did not achieve the prespecified differ- Cary P. Gross, MD, MPH ence of 2 points,” having selected a 2-point difference as clini- cally important. However, the difference of 2 points or 30% was Author Affiliations: Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut (Boatright); Department of Emergency never meant to be applied to between-group differences, but Medicine, Alpert

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Published: Dec 4, 2018

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