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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 10.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2010 Sep;62(9):1229–1236. doi: 10.1002/acr.20225

Figure 1. Study Design.

Figure 1

For the first half of the trial half of the acupuncturists were randomly allocated to the high expectations communication style and the other half to the neutral style. In the second half the acupuncturists switched communication styles.