NHMRC report on homeopathy; mixing apples with oranges

Mathur, Mohit; Gupta, Vishwa Kumar

doi:10.1016/j.homp.2015.09.001

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“…However, most of these lack adequate quality, power, or reporting. 5 Often the complexity of homeopathic intervention or its effect in altering the course of the disease are not traceable by the merely designed RCT. In that case, observational studies, especially cohort and case-control, might display more essential and wide information regarding the effect spectrum of the intervention and consideration of various homeopathic principles.…”

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Navigating the Budding Researchers through Different Study Designs in Homeopathy: Part 1 of Research Method Series

Dutta

2023

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Homeopathy is a complementary and alternative system of medicine that has been in practice for over 200 years. Despite its widespread use, there is still debate on the effectiveness of homeopathy, and research in this area is controversial.In the era of evidence-based healthcare, the scientific community seeks high quality evidence for informed clinical decisions. In homeopathy, research awareness is limited among the practitioners and stakeholders, which results in minimum number of studies, and mostly of compromised quality. This largely contributes to the subjected criticism against the effect of homeopathy.Despite various existing reporting guidelines, methodological frameworks, and research literatures, the submissions of homeopathic research papers reflect serious flaws. In this article, we provide an overview of the research question, hypothesis, objectives, outcome selection and commonly used study designs in homeopathic research.While homeopathic research can be challenging due to the individualised nature of treatment, a properly framed research question and adequately fitted study designs can help researchers investigate the effect of homeopathic treatment and provide valuable insights into multiple fascinating areas of interest.In conclusion, this article is intended to provide the readers with a better understanding of the research process and study designs particularly relevant to homeopathy. It is hoped that this will help researchers design better studies to provide more conclusive evidence of the effects of homeopathic treatments.

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Navigating the Budding Researchers through Different Study Designs in Homeopathy: Part 1 of Research Method Series

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2023

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“…In NHMRC overview the trials based on individualised homeopathy, clinical homeopathy, combination of homeopathic medicines, specific medicine and isopathy were all pooled together while assessing evidence of effectiveness of homeopathy. 4 Each of these interventions differs in terms of the underlying principles of homeopathy and the manner in which the homeopathic intervention is operationalized. In homeopathic studies using individualized homeopathy it is not only the homeopathic drug which is tested for its efficacy but also the underlying principle on which it was prescribed.…”

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NHMRC Overview on Homeopathy

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Mathur

2016

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The National Health and Medical Research Council's conclusion on homeopathy was not legitimate because it was based on homeopathic trials that lacked homogeneity in their intervention. In some trials the intervention was isopathic. The overview and many previously conducted systematic reviews were exclusively based on randomized controlled trials that comprised only 27% of all clinical studies so far published in homeopathy. It is not rational to leave out the evidence generated through uncontrolled studies if these studies showed consistent results.

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Systematicity is necessary but not sufficient: on the problem of facsimile science

Орескес

2017

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NHMRC report on homeopathy; mixing apples with oranges

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Navigating the Budding Researchers through Different Study Designs in Homeopathy: Part 1 of Research Method Series

Navigating the Budding Researchers through Different Study Designs in Homeopathy: Part 1 of Research Method Series

NHMRC Overview on Homeopathy

Systematicity is necessary but not sufficient: on the problem of facsimile science

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