Anja Zieger:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1308-5918
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: Writing – original draft
Alexandra Kern: Role: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole: Writing – review & editing
Jürgen Barth:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7096-7178
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review
& editing
Claudia M. Witt: Role: Funding acquisitionRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Yuanyuan Wang: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
20
May
2022
Publication date Collection: 2022
Volume: 17
Issue: 5
Electronic Location Identifier: e0268646
Affiliations
[1
]
Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, University Hospital Zurich and
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
[2
]
Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité–Universitätsmedizin
Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
[3
]
Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore,
MD, United States of America
Monash University, AUSTRALIA
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-21-29423
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268646
PMC ID: 9122231
PubMed ID: 35594274
SO-VID: 7eee0fb3-4ca5-4231-a2ab-9820ac4ae6d6
Copyright © © 2022 Zieger et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
Funded by:
funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001711, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung;
Award ID: 105319_159833.
Award Recipient
:
Claudia M. Witt
The project was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (
https://data.snf.ch/grants?q=159833), Grant Number 105319_159833. The funders had no role in study design, data collection
and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Research Article
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Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Clinical Medicine
Subject:
Signs and Symptoms
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Pain
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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Acupuncture
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Clinical Medicine
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Signs and Symptoms
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Pain
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Lower Back Pain
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Research and Analysis Methods
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Research Design
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Clinical Research Design
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Adverse Events
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Research and Analysis Methods
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Mathematical and Statistical Techniques
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Statistical Methods
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Regression Analysis
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Linear Regression Analysis
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Physical Sciences
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Mathematics
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Statistics
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Statistical Methods
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Regression Analysis
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Linear Regression Analysis
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Oncology
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Cancer Treatment
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Health Care
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Health Care Providers
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Physicians
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People and Places
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Population Groupings
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Professions
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Medical Personnel
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Physicians
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Health Care
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Patients