TY - JOUR T1 - Acupuncture for ‘frequent attenders’ with medically unexplained symptoms JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 493 LP - 494 DO - 10.3399/bjgp11X588312 VL - 61 IS - 589 AU - Les Rose Y1 - 2011/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/61/589/493.2.abstract N2 - Paterson and colleagues do not provide any evidence for their claim that acupuncture is effective for patients with multiple unexplained symptoms1 for two main reasons. First, their study did not test acupuncture at all, and second, there were so many methodological flaws that no conclusions of any kind could reliably be drawn. Had no needling taken place, and patients in the intervention group simply been given the same amount of time … ER -