TY - JOUR T1 - Acupuncture for ‘frequent attenders’ with medically unexplained symptoms JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 491 LP - 491 DO - 10.3399/bjgp11X588268 VL - 61 IS - 589 AU - David Colquhoun Y1 - 2011/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/61/589/491.1.abstract N2 - The June issue of the BJGP has a paper, ‘Acupuncture for “frequent attenders” with medically unexplained symptoms: a randomised controlled trial (CACTUS study)’.1 It has lots of numbers, but the result is very easy to see. Just look at Figure 2 (omitted from the print version, online only).1There is no need to wade through all the statistics; it's perfectly obvious at a glance that acupuncture has, at best, a tiny and erratic effect on any of the outcomes that were measured. The effects, even if some … ER -