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Table 2 Expert rating of all trials.

From: An international expert survey on acupuncture in randomized controlled trials for low back pain and a validation of the low back pain acupuncture score

Trial No.

Mode Question 1

Mode Question 2

Mode Question 3

LBPAS

LBPAS Rating

1 [42]

2

3

2

5

fair

2 [3]

4

4

4

7

good

3 [19]

3

3

3

6

fair

4 [9]

2

1

2

4

poor

5 [14]

3

1

3

3

poor

6 [7]

1

1

2

2

poor

7 [11]

3

2

3

6

fair

8 [12]

1

1

1

1

poor

9 [4]

4

4

4

6

fair

10 [2]

4

4

4

7

good

11 [25]

4

3

3

7

good

12 [24]

2

1

1

1

poor

13 [48]

3

2

2

5

fair

14 [6]

2

2

2

3

poor

15 [35]

4

4

4

8

good

16 [28]

2

2

3

4

poor

17 [21]

2

2

3

3

poor

18 [17]

1

1

2

3

poor

19 [16]

2

2

3

2

poor

20 [15]

3

3

2

6

fair

21 [32]

3

2

4

4

poor

22 [33]

4

4

4

5

fair

23 [41]

3

4

3

6

fair

24 [44]

3

2

3

5

fair

25 [18]

4

4

5

8

good

  1. Trial No. = number of trial. [] = reference number. Questions: "Please specify how you rate the quality of acupuncture treatment in this trial for chronic low back pain according to Question 1... Chinese acupuncture as you have studied it from textbooks on Chinese acupuncture? Question 2... according to your personal concept of individualized point selection? Question 3... according to the acupuncture commonly performed in your country? Answers were to be given on a five point Likert scale: 1 = very poor; 2 = poor; .3 = fair; 4 = good; 5 = very good. LBPAS = Low Back Pain Acupuncture Score, from minimum of 0 to a maximum of 8 points. LBPAS rating: 1 to 4 = poor; 5 and 6 = fair; 7 and 8 = good and very good.