Retraction: Effect of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine on Subacute Stroke Outcomes: A Single Center Randomized Controlled Trial
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Objective To determine whether integrative medicine, combining acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine with conventional rehabilitation during subacute stroke, is an effective comprehensive rehabilitation strategy for daily life activities, neurological deficits, motor dysfunction, cognitive impairment and depression. Design Randomised controlled trial: patients were randomly assigned to a conventional rehabilitation (CR) group or an integrative medicine rehabilitation (IMR) group with CR plus acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Setting Single-centre inpatient teaching hospital, China Participants 120 Patients aged 35–80 years, with a recent first incidence of subacute ischaemic stroke Main outcome measures Measured at baseline (week 0), mid-point (week 4), week 8 and follow-up (week 20). Primary outcome measurement Modified Barthel Index (MBI) Secondary outcome measurements The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale; Fugl-Meyer Assessment; the Mini-Mental State Examination; Montreal Cognitive Assessment; depression, Hamilton’s Depression Scale; Self-Rating Depression Scale. Results The primary outcome measurement, MBI, showed significant improvement in the IMR group compared with the CR group. The IMR group also showed significant improvement across all of the secondary outcome measures (repeated-measures analysis of variance group*time; independent Student’s t test). Limitations A small placebo bias may exist, but measures were undertaken to limit it. Sample sizes for cognitive impairment and depression in this study were small. Results cannot be generalised to one type of treatment only. Conclusion This trial, evaluating a treatment protocol commonly used in clinical practice, demonstrates that comprehensive rehabilitation including acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine may comprehensively improve subacute stroke outcomes. Trial registration number ChiCTR-TRC-12001972.
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Direct model labels (unvalidated)
Per-model category and study-design labels from the labeling rounds. They are machine output, unvalidated, and the disagreement between models ships as data. No study design here is MEDLINE-validated yet.
| Model arm | Categories | Study design | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| gemma | no category Domain: not available · Genre: Empirical About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no | Randomized trial | low |
| gpt | Research integrity Domain: not available · Genre: Other About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no | Not applicable | high |
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.014 | 0.060 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.036 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedLabeled directly by 2 models reading the full record.
The models disagree on parts of this classification; every voice is preserved in the section at the end of the page.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".