Werden osteopathische Studien zu Unrecht methodisch abgewertet?

Abstract

A common feature of methodological quality checklists is that studies in which some or all participants are not blinded are downgraded. Blinding in RCTs („randomized controlled trials“) has been postulated as a criterion for methodological quality for decades, without studies having provided sufficiently robust results in this context. The results of a meta-epidemiological study impressively question the current practice.