MacPherson Hugh, Nahin Richard, Paterson Charlotte, Cassidy Claire M, Lewith George T, Hammerschlag Richard
Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, United Kingdom.
J Altern Complement Med. 2008 Sep;14(7):883-7. doi: 10.1089/acm.2008.SAR-5.
On November 8-9, 2007, the Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR) hosted an international conference to mark the tenth anniversary of the landmark NIH [National Institutes of Health] Consensus Development Conference on Acupuncture. More than 300 acupuncture researchers, practitioners, students, funding agency personnel, and health policy analysts from 20 countries attended the SAR meeting held at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. This paper summarizes important invited lectures in the area of how the field has developed in the past decade, along with a focus on appropriate strategies for advancing the field. Specific topics include: the impact of the 1997 NIH Acupuncture Consensus Conference on acupuncture research; whole-system strategies for developing the evidence without distorting the medicine; use of qualitative research methods to explore acupuncture as a complex intervention; use of qualitative research approaches to explore some "missing" topics in acupuncture research; and the impact of acupuncture research on clinical practice. A concluding section focuses on future directions in acupuncture research.
2007年11月8日至9日，针灸研究学会（SAR）主办了一次国际会议，以纪念具有里程碑意义的美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）针灸共识发展会议召开十周年。来自20个国家的300多名针灸研究人员、从业者、学生、资助机构人员和卫生政策分析师参加了在马里兰州巴尔的摩市马里兰大学医学院举行的SAR会议。本文总结了在过去十年该领域如何发展方面的重要特邀讲座内容，同时重点关注推动该领域发展的适当策略。具体主题包括：1997年NIH针灸共识会议对针灸研究的影响；在不扭曲医学的情况下发展证据的全系统策略；使用定性研究方法探索作为一种复杂干预手段的针灸；使用定性研究方法探索针灸研究中一些“缺失”的主题；以及针灸研究对临床实践的影响。结语部分重点关注针灸研究的未来方向。
